The Importance of Being Earnest

Because the characters of Algernon and Jack are concerned with style and enjoying life, they best represent what movement?

• Aesthetic
• Transcendentalist
• Gothic
• Modern

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What is the word for a wittily condensed expression often seen throughout Earnest, for example, Algernon’s line, “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his”?

• Anagram
• Antonym
• Epigram
• Kenning

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What drives the action of a “well-made play”?

• A secret
• A fake name
• Witty banter
• A marriage proposal

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Which element typically appears multiple times in a “well-made play”?

• An unexpected knock at the door
• A death in the family
• An advertisement for a popular product
• A word understood differently by multiple characters

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In this play, a person who makes up a fictitious friend or relative in order to have an excuse to leave an unpleasant situation is called a(n)

• Divine hypocrite
• Bunburyist
• Earnest
• Dadaist

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Lady Bracknell opposed Gwendolen’s engagement because Jack:

• Lacks sufficient money to support Gwendolen
• Has a reputation as a partier
• Can’t name his real parents
• Hasn’t been christened

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How does Jack try to get rid of the idea of his “brother Ernest” in Act I and II?

• By staging a drowning accident.
• By saying he died in Paris of a severe chill.
• . By running a newspaper report about a carriage accident that killed him
• By writing a fake letter from Ernest’s wife saying he died.

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What best describes Cecily?

• Mostly interested in her studies
• Prone to romantic fantasies
• Uptight about money
• Mean to people in the lower classes

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In Act II, how does Miss Prism show that she misunderstands Jack’s true nature?

• She says that he would never make an “indecent proposal.”
• She says that he would never talk about “idle merriment.”
• She says that he would never “value simplicity over luxury.”
• She says that he would never “sustain romantic affections for two women.”

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What does Jack say he has little experience doing?

• Running a household
• Telling the truth
• Making pleasant conversation
• Living without a brother

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