Arcadia Quizzes

Arcadia Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Neal Adolph Akatsuka · Last reviewed December 15, 2015

1 What year was the play written?

1809

1993

1893

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

1790

1900

1809

1993
3 What is the name of the estate?

Sidley Park

Dudley Park

Derby Park

Sussex Park
4 The action of the play ___.

takes place inside the room and in the hermitage

all takes place outside

takes place inside the room and in the garden

all takes place in the same room
5 What is Thomasina working on at the beginning of the play?

Itieration

Translating Latin

Chaos theory

Fermat's last theorem
6 Who is Jellaby?

A butler

A botanist

A landscape architect

A poet
7 What food does Thomasina use for her metaphor?

Pheasant

Rice pudding

Toast and jam

Rabbit pie
8 Thomasina asks Septimus if God is a/an ___.

Fermatian

Newtonian

Etonian

Cartesian
9 Who had sex with Mrs. Chater in the gazebo?

Byron

Septimus

Lord Croom

Noakes
10 How does Septimus placate Chater?

By giving him money

By praising his music

By praising his looks

By praising his poetry
11 "The Couch of Eros" is ___.

Septimus's poem

Chater's poem

Byron's poem

Augustus's poem
12 Captain Brice is ___.

the landscape architect

Lady Croom's brother

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.

macabre

picturesque

grotesque

lurid
15 Lady Croom complains about all the following except ___.

the Chinest bridge

the shrubbery

the gazebo

the flowers
16 What will replace the gazebo?

A hermitage

Nothing

A cabin

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

Byron

Thomasina

Lady Croom

Septimus
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 himself

cleverer than men

disrespectful to her elders

cleverer than her elders
20 Hannah can best be described as ___.

catty

serious

silly

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

Lord Byron

Ezra Chater

grouse

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

Caroline Lamb

William Thackeray

Lord Byron

Ezra Chater
23 Gus is known for ___.

being loud

being a scholar

being rude and mean

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

Pheasant

Peacock

Grouse

Nightingale
25 Valentine says all his mother reads are ___.

gardening books

math books

novels

books about Byron

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