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Quiz about The Importance of Knowing the Answers

The Importance of Knowing the Answers Quiz

Quiz on 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (rather hard).

A multiple-choice quiz by spur. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
spur

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
70,430

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
1007

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. What is Lady Bracknell's first name? Hint

Agatha

Simone

Hortensia

Augusta

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Question 2 of 15

2. What is wrong with this stage direction: 'Ernest opens the cigarette case'? Hint

The cigarette case is locked

Ernest doesn't smoke

Ernest is not referred to in that way

Ernest uses cigarettes, but not a case

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which vehicle comes to pick up Algernon? Hint

Dog cart

Horse driven cab

Coach and Horses

Bicycle

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Question 4 of 15

4. What is predicted in the play? Hint

that Lady Bracknell will fly off the handle

that Cecily and Gwendolin will call each other sister

that cucumbers will be out of stock

that Bunbury will turn out to be a real person

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Question 5 of 15

5. What role does Miss Prism serve to Miss Cardew? Hint

Nursemaid

Governess

Teacher

Female Valet

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Question 6 of 15

6. How old will Lady Dumbledown be for the foreseeable future?

Answer: (Number above 18)

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Question 7 of 15

7. Which one of these is not given as a reason for the general's insanity? Hint

Marriage

Bone idleness

Indian Climate

Indigestion

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Question 8 of 15

8. What is important when playing the piano? Hint

Hitting the right notes

Following the chords

Not overdoing pedals

Sentiment

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Question 9 of 15

9. How does Cecily refer to Bunbury's bedside? Hint

Area of agony

Bedside of woe

Bed of pain

Place of doom

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Question 10 of 15

10. How is Chasuble referred to? Hint

Canon only

Vicar only

Doctor only

Doctor or Canon

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Question 11 of 15

11. What is grotesque and irreligious? Hint

Talking out of turn

Children out of wedlock

Baptism

Abandoning babies

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Question 12 of 15

12. Which of these is mentioned first? Hint

The handbag

The ticket to Worthing

The cloakroom at Victoria station

The Brighton Line

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Question 13 of 15

13. Where does Lady Bloxham live? Hint

149 Belgrave Square

140 Belgrave Avenue

148 Belgrave Gardens

145 Belgrave View

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Question 14 of 15

14. What garden implement does Gwendolen confess to not seeing?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 15 of 15

15. What does Cecily mistakenly call Gwendolin? Hint

Goodness to me, Gwendolin

Good grief, Gwendolin

Good heavens, Gwendolin

Good gracious, Gwendolin

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is Lady Bracknell's first name?

Answer: Augusta

Yes, presumbably because she is so august.

2. What is wrong with this stage direction: 'Ernest opens the cigarette case'?

Answer: Ernest is not referred to in that way

Only Jack and Algernon are referred to in the stage directions, Ernest isn't mentioned.

3. Which vehicle comes to pick up Algernon?

Answer: Dog cart

I'm not quite sure what a dog cart is but presumbably it's a cheap type of carriage.

4. What is predicted in the play?

Answer: that Cecily and Gwendolin will call each other sister

This does seem rather sycophantic, even for Wilde.

5. What role does Miss Prism serve to Miss Cardew?

Answer: Governess

Miss Cardew being Cecily Cardew.

6. How old will Lady Dumbledown be for the foreseeable future?

Answer: 35

She is a friend of Lady Bracknell - poor soul.

7. Which one of these is not given as a reason for the general's insanity?

Answer: Bone idleness

The general being Jack and Algernon's father.

8. What is important when playing the piano?

Answer: Sentiment

This occurs right at the beginning of the play.

9. How does Cecily refer to Bunbury's bedside?

Answer: Bed of pain

I think at the end, Algernon could still use Bunbury.

10. How is Chasuble referred to?

Answer: Doctor or Canon

I think a Canon's higher than a Vicar, but I'm not sure.

11. What is grotesque and irreligious?

Answer: Baptism

This is Lady Bracknell's view when Algernon and Jack both want to be christened Ernest.

12. Which of these is mentioned first?

Answer: The ticket to Worthing

The order goes - ticket to Worthing, handbag, cloakroom, line.

13. Where does Lady Bloxham live?

Answer: 149 Belgrave Square

This is who lets Jack's house.

14. What garden implement does Gwendolen confess to not seeing?

Answer: spade

In reply to Cicely's assertion that when she sees a spade, she calls it a spade, Gwendolen says, "I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different."

15. What does Cecily mistakenly call Gwendolin?

Answer: Good heavens, Gwendolin

This is where Cecily thinks Algernon is marrying Gwendolin.

Source: Author spur

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