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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second kind of fool blessed by?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Upbringing.
(c) Religious beliefs.
(d) How their lives evolve over time.

2. What is a prologue?
(a) A teaser which will make the audience want to stay for the whole performance.
(b) A part which comes before the audience arrives.
(c) A short synopsis of the coming play.
(d) An introduction.

3. Why does Congreve tell the audience that they will not be offended to any reference to fools in the play?
(a) Because the fools he is referring to are other artists.
(b) Because they will understand his intentions.
(c) Because they are not fools themselves.
(d) Because they are society and he doesn't want to offend society members.

4. What does Mrs. Marwood claim while talking to Mrs. Fainall?
(a) She would rather love and be left than not be loved at all.
(b) Men are cold as husbands.
(c) She is cuckolding her husband with Mirabell.
(d) Lovers are more passionate.

5. What word best describes the relationship Fainall has with Mrs. Marwood?
(a) Loving and tender.
(b) Filled with underlying rage.
(c) Troubled.
(d) Unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mirabell state that he believes about Mrs. Millamant to Fainall?

2. What does the dramatic device of naming characters that are symbolic of their personality traits allow the playwright Congreve to do?

3. What does Fainall claim about Mrs. Marwood?

4. Why does Wishfort dislike Mirabell?

5. What was Mrs. Millamant's response to her aunt's statement?

(see the answer key)

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