Mrs. Warren’s Profession Quizzes

Mrs. Warren's Profession Quiz 1

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1 Where is Mrs. Alison's cottage?

Haslemere

Italy

Chancery Lane

A seedy area of London
2 How old is Praed?

Just older than middle aged

A boy

Twenty-two

Elderly
3 What is Vivie doing when Praed finds her?

Knitting

Reading a newspaper

Walking

Reading a book
4 Who has an uncomfortably strong handshake?

Mrs. Warren

Crofts

Vivie

Praed
5 What does Praed refuse to share with Vivie?

What he does for a living

What her mother does for a living

Who her father is

How old he is
6 How does Praed describe Vivie?

Beautiful

Too old

Unconventional

Nasty
7 What has Vivie recently achieved?

She passed the bar exam

She got married

She wrote a novel

She earned first wrangler
8 From where has Vivie just graduated?

Yale

High school

Harvard

Cambridge
9 What is Vivie's field of expertise?

Mathematics

Philosophy

Art history

Marketing
10 What does Vivie tell Praed she plans to do next?

Have four children

Get married

Begin working in the city

Take a vacation with her mother
11 What does Praed have trouble believing about Vivie?

That she has not spent much time with her mother

That she dislikes culture and art

That she is a lesbian

That she is ill
12 What did Vivie NOT do with a group of artistic people from Fitzjohn's Avenue?

Go to a concert of Beethoven and Wagner

Attend the rodeo

Go to the National Gallery

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

Frank Gardner

Vivie

Sir George Crofts

The Reverend Samuel Gardner
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 in love with Praed

Being afraid of Praed

Being Praed's half-sister
16 How does Praed react to Crofts' suggestion that he might be Vivie's father?

He gets angry and throws his plate

He says it is impossible

He faints

He says he hopes it is true
17 Why is Frank currently living with his family?

Because his father is dying

To save money

To take care of his little sisters

Because he is building them a new house
18 Who has paid off Frank Gardner's debts?

The Reverend Samuel Gardner

Praed

Vivie

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

Frank and Praed

Frank Gardner and Mrs. Warren

Vivie and Frank

Mrs. Warren and Vivie
20 The Reverend Samuel Gardner says he objects to Frank marrying Vivie on what grounds?

She is too ugly

He does not think she is religious

He does not approve of her social position

He does not think she has enough money
21 What did the Reverend Samuel Gardner once offer a woman fifty pounds for?

A suggestive drawing

A sex act

A church building

Incriminating letters he wrote to her
22 Who told the Reverend Samuel Gardner that "Knowledge is power"?

Crofts

Vivie

Frank Gardner

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

Vivie

Sally

Honoria

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

Because he is hungry

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

Because he is bored

Because he is afraid of running into Mrs. Warren
25 Why does Mrs. Warren pretend to have been married at one point?

Because she hates her maiden last name

Because she is embarrassed to never have been able to find someone to marry

Because she forged her inheritance

Because she has a daughter

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