The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 Quiz (Act III)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde · 5 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 4 min
A free The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 quiz with answers and explanations. Use it as a reading check after Act III, a homework quiz or quick revision — it covers Act III only, so there are no spoilers for later acts.
Spoiler-safe: covers Act III only.
Skills tested: Recall, Character, Inference, Language · Difficulty: Easy, Standard, Challenge
The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 questions
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- What makes Lady Bracknell suddenly approve of Cecily?
Hearing her play the piano · Learning she has a large fortune · Discovering she is Gwendolen's friend · Seeing her excellent German
- What did Miss Prism leave in the pram instead of the baby?
The manuscript of her three-volume novel · A basket of washing for the laundry · Lady Bracknell's diamond brooch · A letter for the baby's father
- How does Jack force Lady Bracknell to allow his marriage to Gwendolen?
He threatens to tell all of her secrets · He offers her a share of his own money · He elopes with Gwendolen to Paris · He blocks Cecily's match until she gives way
- What does Jack discover about his own identity?
He is Miss Prism's own long-lost son · He is secretly Cecily's real father · He is Algernon's elder brother, named Ernest · He is no relation to anyone present
- What does Jack's last line, about the 'vital Importance of Being Earnest', play on?
A proverb about honesty in business · The pun between 'Ernest' and 'earnest' · A line from Gwendolen's letters · Lady Bracknell's family motto
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Keyed to the standard three-act version of the play, not the earlier four-act draft.
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What does the The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 quiz cover?
Only Act III of The Importance of Being Earnest: what happens, why characters act as they do, and what it shows about the play's big ideas. It tests recall, character, inference, language at easy, standard, challenge level.
Does it contain spoilers?
No. It only covers Act III, so it is safe to take as soon as you finish that part.
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