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Answer: Half-Moon Street, W

Algernon Moncrieff resides in London on Half-Moon Street, W. Jack (also known as John) Worthing resides at the Manor House in Woolton.

Answer: Lane

Lane is Algernon's manservant, and Merriman is Jack's butler.

Answer: cucumber

Though they are made for Lady Bracknell they don't last until her visit as Jack and Algernon eat them all.

Answer: No

Actually, she is Algernon's aunt. However, it is discovered at the end that she is also Jack's aunt.

Answer: Algy

Algy is the nickname that Jack calls him. However, he allows Cecily to believe his name is Ernest.

Answer: He is her guardian.

Cecily is Jack's ward. Cecily is the granddaughter of the man who was Jack's guardian as a child.

Answer: Cardew

Fairfax is Gwendolen's last name. Miss Prism is Cecily's governess. Chasuble is the last name of the Reverend.

Answer: younger brother

Jack tells Cecily that he must take care of his younger brother, Ernest so that he has a reason to take off to London. This leads her to believe that Algernon is Jack's younger brother when he heads to the country, posing as Ernest. A bit confusing, I know.

Answer: Bunbury

Algernon calls Jack a Bunburyist when he learns about "Ernest".

Answer: Gwendolen

Jack journeyed to London to propose to Gwendolen. However, Lady Bracknell won't give permission because of his sordid past.

Answer: Yes

She does not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. She was also happy to hear he smoked.

Answer: He lost them.

Lady Bracknell was horrified that Jack had lost his parents. She thought him very careless to have lost both of them.

Answer: in a hand-bag

Jack was found in a black hand-bag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station. He was discovered by Thomas Cardew, Cecily's grandfather.

Answer: The good ended happily and the bad unhappily.

When asked to describe her own three-part volume of fiction, Miss Prism states that the "good ended happily and the bad unhappily." Unfortunately for Miss Prism, her manuscript was lost before it could be published.

Answer: died

Jack returns in mourning garb lamenting the loss of his brother to a severe chill. Unfortunately for him, Algernon had arrived already saying he was Ernest.

Answer: three months

According to her diary, and her fertile imagination, Cecily informed Algernon that they had been engaged for three months.

Answer: No

She could respect him and admire his character, but she could only love someone named Ernest.

Answer: style

In listening to the men's apologies for lying, Gwendolen says that style is important, not sincerity, in matters of grave importance. Cecily wholeheartedly concurred.

Answer: Ernest

Because the girls could never marry someone who wasn't named Ernest, they both agreed to change their names.

Answer: Yes

Lady Bracknell, upon meeting Miss Prism, accuses her of losing her nephew. Miss Prism had been Jack's governess. She accidentally switched her manuscript with him. He was put into her bag and the manuscript into his carriage. Amazingly, it is discovered that Jack's real name is indeed Ernest.