PagineFree The Importance of Being Earnest quizzes with answers: 25 original multiple-choice questions in 7 quizzes, act-by-act, plus a The Importance of Being Earnest summary, characters, themes, key quotes, essay questions and printable tests with answer keys. Use them as a study guide, a reading check or High school / A-Level / AP Lit revision. Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy of manners satirising Victorian society; studied at A-level and in US high schools.
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Keyed to the standard three-act version of the play, not the earlier four-act draft.
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5 questions with answers · spoiler-safe
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📘5 questions with answers · spoiler-safe
🏁10 questions with answers · whole play
Revision quizzes that pull questions from across the whole play (spoilers).
5 questions · Motives, relationships and how characters change.
🧭9 questions · Quick check of what happens and when.
🏆5 questions · The hardest questions — exam-style thinking.
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Jack Worthing calls himself Ernest in town, and his friend Algernon invents an invalid friend to escape dull duties. When both men pose as 'Ernest' to win Gwendolen and Cecily, the deceptions unravel into a farce resolved by a handbag at Victoria Station.
IdentityMarriageSocial classDeceptionTriviality and seriousnessSocietyWitNames
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Jack Worthing calls himself Ernest in town, and his friend Algernon invents an invalid friend to escape dull duties. Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy of manners satirising Victorian society; studied at A-level and in US high schools.
Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, first published in 1895. It is a play in 3 acts.
Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrieff, Gwendolen Fairfax, Cecily Cardew, Lady Bracknell and Miss Prism.
Identity, Marriage, Social class, Deception, Triviality and seriousness, Society, Wit, Names.
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The act quizzes are spoiler-safe — each one only covers its own act. The final test and the skill quizzes cover the whole play.
The Importance of Being Earnest is widely studied for US High School English, A-Level English Literature, AP English Literature. Reading lists vary by school and exam board, so check your own syllabus.
The Importance of Being Earnest is in the public domain in the US: read it free in Pagine or on Project Gutenberg, or listen on LibriVox.
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