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The Importance of Being Earnest Final Test: Whole-Play Quiz

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde · 10 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 8 min

A 10-question The Importance of Being Earnest final test with answers: use it as an end-of-play review, a unit test or quick revision once you have finished reading.

Covers the whole play — contains spoilers.

Skills tested: Context, Recall, Character, Theme, Structure, Inference, Language · Difficulty: Easy, Standard, Challenge

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The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

  1. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
    Oscar Wilde · George Bernard Shaw · Noel Coward · J. M. Barrie
  2. Where was baby Jack found?
    On the steps of a church · In a basket by the river · At a country inn in Kent · In a handbag at Victoria Station
  3. Which character speaks for high-society authority throughout the play?
    Miss Prism · Canon Chasuble · Lady Bracknell · Lane
  4. Wilde subtitled the play 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'. What does this suggest?
    It is meant only for an audience of children · It treats trivia seriously and serious things lightly · It contains no social criticism of any kind · It was written for a royal audience alone
  5. How is the play's tangle of identities finally resolved?
    A coincidence revealed by Miss Prism's past · A letter found in Algernon's flat · A confession by Lane the butler · A court case about Jack's estate
  6. What is Algernon's attitude to marriage at the start of the play?
    He longs to marry and settle down · He is secretly married already · He has never thought about it · He mocks it as unromantic and dull
  7. What does Algernon eat before his aunt arrives?
    The whole of the wedding cake · All of Lady Bracknell's muffins · All the cucumber sandwiches meant for her · Every last biscuit in the house
  8. What do Gwendolen's and Cecily's romantic fantasies have in common?
    Both want to escape their families · Both love the idea of 'Ernest', not the man · Both plan to marry for money alone · Both dislike living in the country
  9. What do Jack's and Algernon's double lives suggest about respectable society?
    Respectability is a mask that hides freedom · Society punishes every kind of lie · The upper classes are always sincere · Country life is more moral than town
  10. What kind of humour is Wilde most famous for in this play?
    Slapstick chases and pratfalls · Long and sentimental speeches · Rude jokes and personal insults · Witty epigrams that overturn common sense
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Keyed to the standard three-act version of the play, not the earlier four-act draft.

Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.

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What does the The Importance of Being Earnest Whole Play quiz cover?

Questions on the whole play — plot, characters, themes, language and context — including the ending. It tests context, recall, character, theme, structure, inference, language at easy, standard, challenge level.

Does it contain spoilers?

Yes — it draws on the whole play, including the ending.

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