Arcadia Quizzes

Arcadia Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1893

1809

1993

1900
2 What year is the past section of the play set in?
1809

1790

1993

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

Derby Park

Sidley Park

Dudley Park
4 The action of the play ___.
takes place inside the room and in the garden

takes place inside the room and in the hermitage

all takes place in the same room

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

Chaos theory

Translating Latin

Fermat's last theorem
6 Who is Jellaby?
A poet

A landscape architect

A butler

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

Toast and jam

Rabbit pie

Rice pudding
8 Thomasina asks Septimus if God is a/an ___.
Newtonian

Etonian

Fermatian

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

Byron

Lord Croom

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

By praising his poetry

By praising his looks

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

Byron's poem

Septimus's poem

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

a scientist

the landscape architect

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

Classical

Romantic

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

lurid

macabre

picturesque
15 Lady Croom complains about all the following except ___.
the flowers

the Chinest bridge

the gazebo

the shrubbery
16 What will replace the gazebo?
A cabin

A tomb

A hermitage

Nothing
17 Who misunderstands "Et in Arcadia ego"?
Lady Croom

Byron

Septimus

Thomasina
18 Thomasina says she has grown up hearing the sounds of ___.
mourning

guns

music

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

cleverer than men

cleverer than himself

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

catty

silly

serious
21 Hannah is writing a history that deals with ___.
Lord Byron

Ezra Chater

the hermit

grouse
22 Hannah's earlier work was on ___.
Ezra Chater

William Thackeray

Lord Byron

Caroline Lamb
23 Gus is known for ___.
being a scholar

being rude and mean

being mute

being loud
24 Bernard's fake last name is ___.
Peacock

Nightingale

Grouse

Pheasant
25 Valentine says all his mother reads are ___.
novels

math books

books about Byron

gardening books

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