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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are poets often fooled?
(a) They are fooled into believing that one successful play means the next one will be successful also.
(b) They don't study their critics.
(c) They believe what people tell them to their face.
(d) They believe in their work and expect others to understand and like it.

2. Why is the theatrical device 'eavesdropping' used by Marwood comical?
(a) She wants revenge on Mirabell.
(b) She is forced to listen to the other character's true opinions of her.
(c) She is self-important.
(d) She is intrigued by the plots going on.

3. What is the purpose of the play?
(a) To instruct the audience in life.
(b) To entertain the audience.
(c) To lecture the audience and therefore, society.
(d) To add to the audience's knowledge.

4. What does Foible do when she enters Lady Wishfort's dressing room?
(a) She asks Mrs. Marwood to keep the men company.
(b) She helps Lady Wishfort dress.
(c) She says Witwoud and Petulant have arrived.
(d) She announces Sir Rowland.

5. Why does Congreve choose this symbol of cosmetics?
(a) He wanted to acknowledge how beautiful it made women.
(b) He felt it served no purpose in life.
(c) He believed that make-up is immoral.
(d) He wanted to show how people change themselves because of vanity.

6. Why does Wishfort dislike Mirabell?
(a) Marwood is Mirabell's mistress.
(b) Mirabel loves Mrs. Millamant.
(c) Mirabell tricked Wishfort into believing he loved her.
(d) Wishfort is jealous of Mrs. Millamant.

7. Where are Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood as Act 2, Scene 1 opens?
(a) In St. James Park.
(b) In Lady Wishfort's house
(c) At Mrs. Fainall's house.
(d) In the country.

8. All of the following are true except one. As Mrs. Marwood discovers Mirabell's plot, she ______ .
(a) Plots to destroy Mirabell's scheme.
(b) Vows revenge.
(c) Wants him to fail.
(d) Feels angry with Mrs. Wishfort.

9. What does Foible tell Mrs. Fainall when Lady Wishfort leaves the dressing room?
(a) She has hidden Mrs. Marwood in the closet.
(b) She insulted Mrs. Marwood.
(c) She wed Waitwell.
(d) She has angered Lady Wishfort.

10. Why is Fainall bored when talking with Mirabell in the chocolate house?
(a) Because Sir Rowland enters and begins to talk to them.
(b) Because Mirabell doesn't know how to play.
(c) Because Mirabell is distracted.
(d) Because Mrs. Millamant enters and begins to talk to them.

11. Why did Waitwell marry Foible?
(a) Because she was pregnant.
(b) Because he wants to start a family.
(c) So that he couldn't marry Wishfort.
(d) Because he loved her.

12. What is Sir Wilfull's relationship with Lady Wishfort?
(a) He is her uncle.
(b) He is her nephew.
(c) He is her brother.
(d) He is her son.

13. Are the tastes of poets random?
(a) Yes.
(b) Perhaps.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

14. Why does Fainall say he married his wife?
(a) For love.
(b) For her social position.
(c) For her good breeding.
(d) For her money.

15. What reason does Fainall give for Mirabell's deception being revealed?
(a) He should have expected Lady Wishfort's friends to tell her.
(b) He did not return Mrs. Marwood's romantic gestures.
(c) Mrs. Marwood tried to protect her friend, Lady Wishfort.
(d) He deserved it.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose are the cosmetics used in Act 3, Scene 1?

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

3. Where is Mrs. Marwood at the opening of Act 3, Scene 2?

4. In the chocolate house, what does Mirabel's discussion of Mrs. Millamant's character reveal?

5. Why is Mrs. Fainall's husband cold to her?

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