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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the dramatic device of naming characters that are symbolic of their personality traits allow the playwright Congreve to do?
(a) Inform the audience about each character without having to develop them.
(b) Create a favorable impression for each character.
(c) Limit a character's significance.
(d) Suggest a course of action for the characters.

2. What does the prologue do?
(a) Challenges the audience to try something new.
(b) Limits criticism of the play.
(c) Introduces Congreve and his play.
(d) Instructs the audience on how to react to the play.

3. Why does Petulant hire three prostitutes?
(a) Act as a foil to his popularity.
(b) Feign importance to his peers.
(c) Show his lack of social sensitivity.
(d) Satisfy his sexual needs.

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

5. What are Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood doing to each other in the park?
(a) Testing each other about Mirabell.
(b) Investigating each other's love affairs.
(c) Questioning each other about their opinion of love.
(d) Trying to determine if the other is having an affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second kind of fool blessed by?

2. What does Mirabell suggest that Mrs. Fainall do if she no longer loves her husband?

3. What does Mirabell's plan consist of?

4. What do the different marriages introduced in the play seem to be motivated by?

5. What news does the footman bring Mirabell at the chocolate house?

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