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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How is Jack a contrite son?
(a) He pretends to be happy.
(b) He shows his sadness.
(c) He is not contrite at all.
(d) He chooses to not listen to his father.
2. What does Mrs Malaprop misuse all the time?
(a) prepositions.
(b) words.
(c) people.
(d) sentences.
3. What does Julia fall in love with?
(a) Faulkland's tragic romantic fantasies.
(b) Faulkland's eyes.
(c) Faulkland's hands.
(d) Fualkland's words.
4. What was occurring in English culture and literature as Sheridan wrote the play?
(a) When Sheridan wrote THE RIVALS, there was great debate about what type of drama should fill the English stage.
(b) The fashions and styles.
(c) A new styles or wiriting plays.
(d) The Black Plague totally killed the evolution of culture.
5. How does the lawyer get the sergeant at law to accept the paper?
(a) He offers to marry his daughter.
(b) He slips money to the sergeant at law.
(c) He invites the sergeant at law to dinner.
(d) He promises to invest in the sergeant at law's business.
Short Answer Questions
1. Is Jack interested in his father's description of Lydia?
2. What must Julia frequently do?
3. What does connive mean?
4. What news does Lucy give Fag?
5. Who has Lydia lost?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mrs Malaprop inform Jack of?
2. Why does the audience not feel sorry for Fag?
3. What does Lucius talk Acres into?
4. Does Lydia forgive and forget?
5. What does Lucy contemplate as she waits for Sir Lucius?
6. Who often gets in Lucius' way?
7. Who is Lydia's cousin?
8. Why is Mr. Faulkland worried about Julia?
9. Is Jack excited that Lydia turns out to be his betrothed?
10. How does Sheridan immediately begin his story?
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