The Importance of Being Earnest

Why does Lane think it isn’t polite to listen to Algernon’s piano-playing?

• Because Lane is only a servant

• Because Algernon plays so badly

• Because Lane is tone deaf

• Because he knows Algernon is shy about his playing

What does Algernon tell Jack he has always suspected him of being?

• A Communist

• A Liberal Unionist

• A Bunburyist

• A Tory

What leads Algernon to think Jack is leading a double life?

• A letter

• A diary

• An inscription

• A handkerchief embroidered with strawberries

What does Jack say it is a very ungentlemanly thing to read?

• Gwendolen’s diary

• French drama

• More than half of modern literature

• A private cigarette case

At first, Jack tells Algernon that Cecily is his what?

• Sister

• Aunt

• Hair colorist

• Former governess

Why does Lane claim that there were “no cucumbers at the market”?

• A) Because he thinks Algernon should go on a high-protein diet That she is humming “The Ride of the Valkyrie”

• B) Because Algernon has eaten all the cucumber sandwiches himself That she is dressed up like one of the Valkyrie

• C) Because he wants to get Algernon off the hook

• B and C

What does Gwendolen say they live in?

• A pigsty

• An age of ideals

• A house in Shropshire

• An age of surfaces

What does Gwendolen say the name Ernest produces?

• A) Vibrations

• B) Suspicions

• C) Absolute confidence

• A and C

What is Lady Bracknell’s reaction when Jack admits to her that he smokes?

• Shock

• Disgust

• Approval

• A coughing fit

Where did old Mr. Thomas Cardew find Jack as a baby?

• In a cloakroom at a railway station

• Shropshire

• A foundling hospital

• The British Museum