Mrs. Warren’s Profession Quizzes

Mrs. Warren's Profession Quiz 1

By Meghan Joyce Tozer · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed May 24, 2015

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?

Reading a newspaper

Walking

Knitting

Reading a book
4 Who has an uncomfortably strong handshake?

Mrs. Warren

Crofts

Praed

Vivie
5 What does Praed refuse to share with Vivie?

How old he is

What her mother does for a living

Who her father is

What he does for a living
6 How does Praed describe Vivie?

Nasty

Beautiful

Unconventional

Too old
7 What has Vivie recently achieved?

She got married

She wrote a novel

She earned first wrangler

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

High school

Cambridge

Yale

Harvard
9 What is Vivie's field of expertise?

Mathematics

Art history

Marketing

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

Get married

Have four children

Take a vacation with her mother

Begin working in the city
11 What does Praed have trouble believing about Vivie?

That she has not spent much time with her mother

That she is ill

That she dislikes culture and art

That she is a lesbian
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

Attend the opera

Go to the National Gallery
13 With whom does Mrs. Warren first arrive at Mrs. Alison's cottage?

Frank Gardner

Sir George Crofts

The Reverend Samuel Gardner

Vivie
14 What does Praed warn Mrs. Warren and Crofts about in Act I?

That it looks like it's going to rain

To stop listening to anything Vivie says

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

That Vivie is probably violent
15 What does Crofts accuse Mrs. Warren of, with respect to Praed?

Being afraid of Praed

Being Praed's half-sister

Being in love with Praed

Maintaining a sexual affair with Praed
16 How does Praed react to Crofts' suggestion that he might be Vivie's father?

He gets angry and throws his plate

He says he hopes it is true

He faints

He says it is impossible
17 Why is Frank currently living with his family?

Because he is building them a new house

To take care of his little sisters

To save money

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

Praed

Vivie

The Reverend Samuel Gardner

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

Vivie and Frank

Frank and Praed

Mrs. Warren and Vivie

Frank Gardner and Mrs. Warren
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 approve of her social position

She is too ugly

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

A suggestive drawing

Incriminating letters he wrote to her

A sex act

A church building
22 Who told the Reverend Samuel Gardner that "Knowledge is power"?

Vivie

Mrs. Warren

Frank Gardner

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

Vivie

Miss Vavasour

Honoria

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

Because he is afraid of running into Mrs. Warren

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

Because he is bored

Because he is hungry
25 Why does Mrs. Warren pretend to have been married at one point?

Because she has a daughter

Because she hates her maiden last name

Because she forged her inheritance

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