WorksheetsEarnest Test Review
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
The character of Lane plays a minor role in a single act of the play. However, he does serve a purpose. What does Lane suggest about Algernon?
Algernon has overextended his credit with local merchants.
Algernon blames others for his own misdeeds.
Algernon is devoted to his aunt.
Algernon is generous to his servants.
What does Algernon find that leads him to believe “Ernest” has another life?
A leather handbag with the initials “J.W.”
A letter, addressed to Ernest
A handkerchief with the initials “J.W.”
A cigarette case with “Uncle Jack” engraved into it
What does Jack tell Algernon he intends to do with his “brother” Ernest?
He is going to send him to Australia.
He is going to find an actor to portray him.
He is going to “kill” him off with some kind of illness.
He is going to ask Algernon to portray him.
What do we learn about Lady Harbury from Lady Bracknell’s description of her last visit with the new widow?
Lady Harbury is distraught and appears to not know what to do with herself now that her husband is dead.
Lady Harbury appears to be years younger the longer she is without a husband.
Lady Harbury intends to remarry as soon as an eligible bachelor can be found.
Lady Harbury plans to travel the world with her dead husband’s money.
How does Algernon distract Lady Bracknell so that Jack and Gwendolen can speak?
He takes her on a tour of his house.
He takes her to his music room to play music options for the following weekend.
He takes her into the kitchen to test the cucumber sandwiches.
He takes her out to his garden.
Algernon is often called to attend to _____, his sick friend.
Bunbury
Titus Andronicus
Peregrine
Vincent
Gwendolen has always wanted to marry a man named
Jack
John
Ernest
Edgar
Jack was given the last name of Worthing because
he seemed very valuable.
the man who found him had a train ticket to the town with the name.
it was etched onto the leather bag.
it is his foster family’s name.
After Jack speaks to Lady Bracknell, Algernon adds insult to injury by
playing the “Wedding March.”
making kissing faces at him.
insisting that they go out and find new dates.
hoving a plate of food into his face.
Why is Jack not allowed to marry Gwendolen?
He is already married.
Her mother does not approve.
He is her brother.
He does not have enough money.
How does Algernon learn the location of Jack’s country estate?
He reads Jack’s address book.
He overhears the conversation between Jack and Gwendolen
Lady Bracknell reveals it to him.
Looking at the police report.
Cecily is learning what language in the garden?
French
German
Latin
Japanese
Which of the following describes Cecily’s attitude toward education?
She thrives on learning and intends to buck tradition by going to university.
She demonstrates clear intelligence and does not appear to have much use for more education.
She is flighty and does not appear to care for education at all.
She learns everything she needs to by reading many books and finds Miss Prism’s lessons redundant.
Jack has told Cecily that Ernest will be sent
to prison.
to the Netherlands for business.
to Australia.
to Germany.
In reading between the lines, what do we learn about Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble?
They want nothing to do with each other.
They are business associates and that is all.
They are family.
They are attracted to each other.
Jack arrives at the country estate announcing that his brother Ernest has just died. Where does he say that his brother has died?
Paris
London
Geneva
St. Petersburg
What does he say killed his brother?
He says that Ernest got into a bar fight.
He says that Ernest had a heart condition.
He says that Ernest died of an unfortunate case of smallpox.
He says that Ernest died of a chill.
What does Cecily reveal to Algernon concerning their relationship?
She has always hated him and the way Algernon treats her dear Uncle Jack.
She believes they should run off and get married immediately.
They have been involved in a tumultuous engagement that began on Valentine’s Day and has endured at least one break-up.
She knows that he is engaged to another woman but he should break that relationship off immediately.
Which of the following is not true concerning the conversation about “Ernest” that takes place between Gwendolen and Cecily?
They each blame Ernest for the confusion.
They both believe that the other is trying to steal her fiancé.
They both use their diaries to prove the truth concerning their engagement.
They are angry with each other until they discover the truth of Jack and Algernon’s deceit.
Gwendolen and Cecily forgive their men when they hear
they will be moving to London.
the men will change their names.
Lady Bracknell supports both marriages.
the newspaper will publish an article about them.
How did Lady Bracknell discover Jack’s country estate?
She found it written on Algernon’s shirt cuff.
She bribed Gwendolen’s maid.
She read it in a police report.
Merriman had informed her earlier in the play.
What does Algernon say happened to Bunbury?
His health improved.
He died in Australia.
He was exploded.
He died of a chill.
What causes Lady Bracknell to change her mind about Cecily marrying Algernon?
She discovers Cecily is the daughter of an earl.
She discovers that Cecily has inherited a great fortune.
She sees how much Algernon loves Cecily.
Gwendolen speaks up on Cecily’s behalf.
What does Jack insist upon concerning Cecily’s engagement?
He is more than happy to see her married off so he doesn’t have to be responsible for her any longer.
He is distraught because he is not ready to let her go.
He will not allow to her to get married to Algernon if he is not able to marry Gwendolen.
He works to convince Lady Bracknell that Cecily and Algernon are a good match.
What was supposed to be in the handbag in which Miss Prism mistakenly placed Jack when he was a baby?
Jewels
Food and wine
A book manuscript
It was empty
How are Jack and Algernon really related?
Jack is Algernon’s son.
They are brothers.
Algernon is Jack’s uncle.
Jack is Algernon’s godfather.
What is Algernon doing throughout most of the play?
smoking
humming
singing
eating
WHO SAID IT: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
Prism
Chasuble
Algernon
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
Cecily
Bracknell
Algernon
Jack
WHO SAID IT: “I never change, except in my affections.”
Cecily
Bracknell
Prism
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: “Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
Jack
Bracknell
Chasuble
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
Cecily
Bracknell
Chasuble
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: “The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
Cecily
Bracknell
Chasuble
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: “I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
Prism
Bracknell
Jack
Algernon
WHO SAID IT: “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
Prism
Algernon
Cecily
Bracknell
WHO SAID IT: “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
Prism
Algernon
Cecily
Bracknell
WHO SAID IT: “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Prism
Algernon
Cecily
Chasuble
WHO SAID IT: “ I hate waiting even five minutes for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual, myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite out of the question.”
Prism
Algernon
Cecily
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
Bracknell
Prism
Cecily
Gwendolen
WHO SAID IT: "The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain."
Chasuble
Jack
Algernon
Lane
WHO SAID IT: "Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray."
Chasuble
Jack
Cecily
Prism
WHO SAID IT: "I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
Gwendolen
Jack
Algernon
Cecily
