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ACT 3 - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

WHAT ARE CECILY AND GWENDOLEN EAGER TO DO AFTER LEAVING ALGERNON AND JACK IN THE GARDEN?

a)

DISCUSS THE DECEPTIONS

b)

EXACT REVENGE

c)

CALL OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS

d)

FORGIVE THE MEN

2.

WHAT ARRANGEMENT HAVE ALGERNON AND JACK BOTH MADE, WINNING THEM THE COMPLETE FORGIVENESS OF CECILY AND GWENDOLEN?

a)

TO RECHRISTEN THEMSELVES AS ERNEST

b)

A JOINT WEDDING

c)

A JOINT HONEYMOON

d)

TO END THE ENGAGEMENTS

3.

WHOSE SUDDEN ARRIVAL AT THE MANOR HOUSE CASTS THE ENGAGEMENT OF CECILY AND ALGERNON INTO DOUBT?

a)

DR. CHASUBLE

b)

MISS PRISM

c)

LADY BRACKNELL

d)

BUNBURY

4.

WHAT MUST LADY BRACKNELL CONSENT TO, FOR JACK TO CONSENT TO CECILY AND ALGERNON’S MARRIAGE?

a)

REMAINING ABSENT

b)

JACK PRESIDING

c)

A CEREMONY IN HERTFORDSHIRE

d)

JACK'S MARRIAGE WITH GWENDOLEN

5.

THE MENTION OF ________ ‘S NAME STOPS LADY BRACKNELL FROM LEAVING THE MANOR HOUSE WITH GWENDOLEN.

a)

BUNBURY

b)

DR. CHASUBLE

c)

MISS PRISM

d)

ERNEST WORTHING

6.

WHAT DOES LADY BRACKNELL ACCUSE MISS PRISM OF HAVING STOLEN TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO?

a)

A MANUSCRIPT

b)

A BABY

c)

A BABY CARRIAGE

d)

A HANDBAG

7.

WHAT DID MISS PRISM CONFUSE THE BABY WITH, CAUSING HER TO PLACE THE BABY IN A HANDBAG?

a)

A SMALL DOG

b)

A POTTED PLANT

c)

A NOVEL MANUSCRIPT

d)

A NEWSPAPER

8.

WHO DOES THE BABY TURN OUT TO HAVE BEEN?

a)

GWENDOLEN

b)

CECILY

c)

ALGERNON

d)

JACK

9.

WHAT DOES JACK WRONGLY CONCLUDE UPON REALIZING THAT HE WAS THE MISPLACED BABY?

a)

BRACKNELL IS HIS MOTHER

b)

PRISM IS HIS MOTHER

c)

HE IS GWENDOLEN'S COUSIN

d)

HE IS ALGERNON'S BROTHER

10.

WHAT INFORMATION EMERGES FROM THE REVELATION THAT JACK IS LADY BRACKNELL’S NEPHEW?

a)

JACK IS ALGERNON'S BROTHER

b)

JACK IS GWENDOLEN'S COUSIN

c)

JACK'S NAME IS ERNEST

d)

ALL THE ANSWERS MENTIONED ARE CORRECT

11.

ASIDE FROM HIS RELATION TO LADY BRACKNELL AND ALGERNON, WHAT DOES JACK LEARN IN THE PLAY’S FINAL ACT?

a)

GWENDOLEN IS HIS SISTER

b)

PRISM IS HIS MOTHER

c)

HIS TRUE NAME JOHN ERNEST

d)

HE IS CECILY'S FATHER

12.

WHAT SOCIAL GROUP DOES OSCAR WILDE SATIRIZE THROUGH THE FIGURE OF LADY BRACKNELL?

a)

THE WORKING CLASS

b)

THE MIDDLE CLASS

c)

THE CLERGY

d)

THE ARISTOCRACY