The Importance of Being Earnest quiz

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Who said it?

“Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence inmGrosvenor Square.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

“If you are not [wicked], then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

"Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man.  He has nothing, but he looks everything.  What more can one desire?"

“On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

Algernon is suspicious of Jack’s personal life because he finds a

1. bill for a romantic dinner at Willis’s
2. cigarette case with an inscription to Jack from an unknown woman
3. letter to Jack from someone named Cecily
4. woman's glove in Jack's carriage

Both Algernon and Jack make an appointment with Dr. Chasuble to discuss

1. being rechristened with new names
2. their marriages
3. their religious qualms
4. their wedding vows

Cecily and Gwendolen’s conflict over their engagements is explored during

1. Mr. Gribsby’s visit
2. Reverend Chasuble’s sermon
3. tea time
4. the christening of Ernest

Cecily explains to Algernon that an engagement, to be serious, must be

1. approved by her guardian
2. backed up by ready cash
3. broken at least once
4. published in the London Times

Jack makes up a story about his brother Ernest dying in

1. Dublin
2. Geneva
3. London
4. Paris

Jack wins Lady Bracknell’s blessing for his marriage to Gwendolen by

1. giving her a detailed written list of his finances
2. offering to name their first daughter Augusta
3. revealing that he is a crown prince
4. threatening to remove his consent for Algernon’s marriage to Cecily

Lady Bracknell changes her mind about Cecily’s suitability to marry Algernon when she learns of

1. Algernon’s latest escapade
2. Cecily’s education
3. Cecily’s fortune
4. Jack’s birth

The secret of Jack’s birth and parentage is revealed through the past of

1. Cecily
2. Gwendolen
3. Miss Prism
4. Reverend Chasuble

Two areas in which Victorians showed little sympathy or compassion were

1. childbirth and death
2. childhood and old age
3. illness and death
4. poverty and illness