Arcadia Quizzes

Arcadia Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1809

1993

1893

1900
2 What year is the past section of the play set in?
1993

1900

1790

1809
3 What is the name of the estate?
Dudley Park

Sussex Park

Sidley Park

Derby Park
4 The action of the play ___.
takes place inside the room and in the hermitage

takes place inside the room and in the garden

all takes place in the same room

all takes place outside
5 What is Thomasina working on at the beginning of the play?
Itieration

Translating Latin

Fermat's last theorem

Chaos theory
6 Who is Jellaby?
A butler

A poet

A botanist

A landscape architect
7 What food does Thomasina use for her metaphor?
Rice pudding

Pheasant

Rabbit pie

Toast and jam
8 Thomasina asks Septimus if God is a/an ___.
Cartesian

Fermatian

Etonian

Newtonian
9 Who had sex with Mrs. Chater in the gazebo?
Lord Croom

Noakes

Septimus

Byron
10 How does Septimus placate Chater?
By praising his looks

By praising his music

By praising his poetry

By giving him money
11 "The Couch of Eros" is ___.
Septimus's poem

Chater's poem

Augustus's poem

Byron's poem
12 Captain Brice is ___.
Lady Croom's brother

the landscape architect

a scientist

a poet
13 Noakes is turning the garden into an example of the ___.
Oriental

Classical

Ancient

Romantic
14 Thomasina knows more about the ___ than the rest.
lurid

picturesque

grotesque

macabre
15 Lady Croom complains about all the following except ___.
the shrubbery

the flowers

the gazebo

the Chinest bridge
16 What will replace the gazebo?
A hermitage

Nothing

A cabin

A tomb
17 Who misunderstands "Et in Arcadia ego"?
Thomasina

Byron

Septimus

Lady Croom
18 Thomasina says she has grown up hearing the sounds of ___.
guns

love

music

mourning
19 Septimus tells Thomasina she ought not to be ___.
cleverer than her elders

cleverer than men

disrespectful to her elders

cleverer than himself
20 Hannah can best be described as ___.
catty

serious

silly

friendly
21 Hannah is writing a history that deals with ___.
grouse

Ezra Chater

Lord Byron

the hermit
22 Hannah's earlier work was on ___.
Caroline Lamb

William Thackeray

Lord Byron

Ezra Chater
23 Gus is known for ___.
being rude and mean

being a scholar

being loud

being mute
24 Bernard's fake last name is ___.
Nightingale

Peacock

Pheasant

Grouse
25 Valentine says all his mother reads are ___.
math books

gardening books

books about Byron

novels

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