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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack do as he exits the stage?
(a) Pushes Fag out of the way.
(b) Yells at Fag.
(c) Curses at his father.
(d) Slams his fist into his chest.

2. What other word does Mrs. Malaprop's note confuse?
(a) life and love.
(b) wrong and right.
(c) liked and loathed.
(d) superfluous with superficial.

3. What does Acres confide in Jack?
(a) He is in love with Julia.
(b) He has been improving himself to impress Lydia.
(c) He does not love Lydia.
(d) He is in love with a servant girl.

4. What does Mrs. Malaprop's note confuse?
(a) longing and loathing.
(b) critiques and compliments .
(c) induction with seduction.
(d) love with lust.

5. What kind of comedy is this play?
(a) a comedy of errors.
(b) a fable.
(c) A comedy of manners.
(d) a comedy of problems.

6. What does Jack claim his new desire is?
(a) die honorably in a war.
(b) be a bachelor.
(c) go abroad.
(d) To marry who ever his father chooses.

7. Why does Lydia like Beverly Ensign?
(a) He tries to impress her with his poetry.
(b) He is sweet to her.
(c) Because he is ectremely rich.
(d) Because he is a poor soldier.

8. What does Faulkland promise himself?
(a) He will continue to pester Julia.
(b) They he will never distress Julia again.
(c) He will leave Julia.
(d) To court another woman.

9. What is Mrs. Malaprop's pen name?
(a) Delia.
(b) Darcy.
(c) Deanie.
(d) Dolores.

10. Who is Sir Absolute's son?
(a) Captain John.
(b) Captain Jacob.
(c) Captain Jack.
(d) Captain Jefferson.

11. What does Jack learn about his parents?
(a) They had a love match.
(b) They did not want to marry one another.
(c) They wish they wouldnt have had a son.
(d) They had a marriage of convenience.

12. How does Act 3, Scene 2 begin?
(a) Sir Anthony';s study.
(b) Jack's study.
(c) Julia's dressing room.
(d) Sir Anthony's receiving room.

13. Where does Act I, Scene II take place?
(a) In Julia's bedroom.
(b) In the living room.
(c) The dressing room of Lydia's Aunt Malaprop.
(d) In Sir Anthony's town house.

14. What does not exist in this play?
(a) Deep meaning or morals.
(b) kind witnesses.
(c) truthful characters.
(d) A sassy tone.

15. What type of love does Julia offer?
(a) unconditional true love.
(b) meaningless.
(c) fleeting.
(d) fledgling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does disinherit mean?

2. What must Julia frequently do?

3. What play is this for Richard Sheridan?

4. What makes Julia cry?

5. Where is Fag headed at the end of the scene?

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