Arcadia Quizzes

Arcadia Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1900

1809

1893

1993
2 What year is the past section of the play set in?
1809

1993

1790

1900
3 What is the name of the estate?
Sussex Park

Derby Park

Dudley Park

Sidley Park
4 The action of the play ___.
all takes place in the same room

takes place inside the room and in the hermitage

all takes place outside

takes place inside the room and in the garden
5 What is Thomasina working on at the beginning of the play?
Chaos theory

Translating Latin

Fermat's last theorem

Itieration
6 Who is Jellaby?
A landscape architect

A poet

A butler

A botanist
7 What food does Thomasina use for her metaphor?
Pheasant

Rice pudding

Rabbit pie

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

Etonian

Newtonian

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

Lord Croom

Septimus

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

By giving him money

By praising his looks

By praising his poetry
11 "The Couch of Eros" is ___.
Augustus's poem

Byron's poem

Septimus's poem

Chater's poem
12 Captain Brice is ___.
a scientist

a poet

Lady Croom's brother

the landscape architect
13 Noakes is turning the garden into an example of the ___.
Romantic

Ancient

Classical

Oriental
14 Thomasina knows more about the ___ than the rest.
macabre

picturesque

lurid

grotesque
15 Lady Croom complains about all the following except ___.
the gazebo

the flowers

the shrubbery

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

A cabin

A hermitage

Nothing
17 Who misunderstands "Et in Arcadia ego"?
Thomasina

Lady Croom

Byron

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

cleverer than her elders

disrespectful to her elders
20 Hannah can best be described as ___.
catty

serious

silly

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

Lord Byron

the hermit

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

William Thackeray

Lord Byron

Ezra Chater
23 Gus is known for ___.
being mute

being rude and mean

being loud

being a scholar
24 Bernard's fake last name is ___.
Pheasant

Nightingale

Peacock

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

books about Byron

novels

gardening books

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