Mrs. Warren’s Profession Quizzes

Mrs. Warren's Profession Quiz 1

1 Where is Mrs. Alison's cottage?
Haslemere

A seedy area of London

Chancery Lane

Italy
2 How old is Praed?
A boy

Just older than middle aged

Twenty-two

Elderly
3 What is Vivie doing when Praed finds her?
Walking

Reading a newspaper

Reading a book

Knitting
4 Who has an uncomfortably strong handshake?
Praed

Mrs. Warren

Crofts

Vivie
5 What does Praed refuse to share with Vivie?
What he does for a living

What her mother does for a living

How old he is

Who her father is
6 How does Praed describe Vivie?
Nasty

Beautiful

Unconventional

Too old
7 What has Vivie recently achieved?
She got married

She earned first wrangler

She wrote a novel

She passed the bar exam
8 From where has Vivie just graduated?
Yale

High school

Cambridge

Harvard
9 What is Vivie's field of expertise?
Marketing

Art history

Philosophy

Mathematics
10 What does Vivie tell Praed she plans to do next?
Get married

Take a vacation with her mother

Have four children

Begin working in the city
11 What does Praed have trouble believing about Vivie?
That she is a lesbian

That she dislikes culture and art

That she is ill

That she has not spent much time with her mother
12 What did Vivie NOT do with a group of artistic people from Fitzjohn's Avenue?
Go to a concert of Beethoven and Wagner

Go to the National Gallery

Attend the rodeo

Attend the opera
13 With whom does Mrs. Warren first arrive at Mrs. Alison's cottage?
The Reverend Samuel Gardner

Frank Gardner

Vivie

Sir George Crofts
14 What does Praed warn Mrs. Warren and Crofts about in Act I?
To stop listening to anything Vivie says

To stop thinking of Vivie as if she were a little girl

That Vivie is probably violent

That it looks like it's going to rain
15 What does Crofts accuse Mrs. Warren of, with respect to Praed?
Maintaining a sexual affair with Praed

Being Praed's half-sister

Being in love with Praed

Being afraid of Praed
16 How does Praed react to Crofts' suggestion that he might be Vivie's father?
He faints

He says it is impossible

He says he hopes it is true

He gets angry and throws his plate
17 Why is Frank currently living with his family?
Because he is building them a new house

To save money

To take care of his little sisters

Because his father is dying
18 Who has paid off Frank Gardner's debts?
The Reverend Samuel Gardner

Vivie

Praed

Mrs. Warren
19 Which characters meet for the very first time in Act I?
Frank Gardner and Mrs. Warren

Vivie and Frank

Frank and Praed

Mrs. Warren and Vivie
20 The Reverend Samuel Gardner says he objects to Frank marrying Vivie on what grounds?
He does not think she has enough money

He does not think she is religious

He does not approve of her social position

She is too ugly
21 What did the Reverend Samuel Gardner once offer a woman fifty pounds for?
A sex act

A church building

Incriminating letters he wrote to her

A suggestive drawing
22 Who told the Reverend Samuel Gardner that "Knowledge is power"?
Frank Gardner

Mrs. Warren

Crofts

Vivie
23 What name does the Reverend Samuel Garder know Mrs. Warren by?
Miss Vavasour

Vivie

Honoria

Sally
24 Why does the Reverend Samuel Gardner start to leave, before he is stopped by Vivie in Act I?
Because he is hungry

Because he is bored

Because Frank has hurt his feelings by reminding him of the past

Because he is afraid of running into Mrs. Warren
25 Why does Mrs. Warren pretend to have been married at one point?
Because she is embarrassed to never have been able to find someone to marry

Because she hates her maiden last name

Because she forged her inheritance

Because she has a daughter