The Importance of Being Earnest Test Review

Identify the character who said, "From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first impressions of people are invariably right.”

• Jack

• Algernon

• Gwendolen

• Cecily

Identify the character who said, "How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.”

• Jack

• Gwendolen

• Algernon

• Cecily

Identify the character who said, "I don’t quite like women who are interested in philanthropic work. I think it is so forward of them.”

• Jack

• Gwendolen

• Algernon

• Cecily

Identify the character who said, “I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."

• Jack

• Gwendolen

• Algernon

• Cecily

Identify the character who said, "To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."

• Cecily

• Gwendolen

• Miss Prism

• Lady Bracknell

Identify the character who said, "You should get married. A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!”

• Cecily

• Gwendolen

• Miss Prism

• Lady Bracknell

In The Importance of Being Earnest, what leads Algernon to suspect that Ernest/Jack is a Bunburyist?

• Algernon finds a handkerchief embroidered “Jack Worthing” in his friend’s jacket pocket.

• Gwendolen tells him that his name is really Jack.

• He overhears him call himself Jack to a friend.

• He sees an inscription on a cigarette case.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, why does Gwendolen always travel with her diary?

• She believes people should always have something sensational to read on the train.

• She is hoping to write a three-volume novel based on her life.

• She wants to be ready if she has to prove an event took place.

• She wants to give it to Jack as a birthday present.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, how does Jack finally discover his father’s, and his, name?

• He finds it in the Army Lists.

• He finds it in the family Bible.

• Lady Bracknell tells him.

• Miss Prism tells him.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, how does Algernon find out where Jack’s house in the country is located?

• He eavesdrops on Jack.

• He has Lane find out.

• He steals Jack’s mail.

• Jack tells him.