The Country Wife Quizzes

The Country Wife Quiz 1

1 The Prologue is spoken by the actor playing which character?
Sir Jasper Fidget

Horner

Jack Pinchwife

Mr. Harcourt
2 How does the speaker of the Prologue anticipate that the audience will respond to the play?
Deliriously

Critically

Appreciatively

Apathetically
3 Whom has Horner employed to spread the rumor of his impotence?
The Quack

Jack Pinchwife

Mr. Sparkish

Sir Jasper Fidget
4 From what country has Horner recently returned?
Germany

Switzerland

Italy

France
5 Who has supposedly deprived Horner of his sexual potency?
An English surgeon

A French prostitute

An English prostitute

A French surgeon
6 Why does Horner think that his ruse will help him with the ladies?
Low-testosterone males were fashionable in the Restoration

Ladies will find him more approachable

It will cause husbands and parents to let down their guards

He believes in reverse-psychology
7 Why did the supposed French surgeon supposedly operate on Horner?
Injuries sustained in a tavern brawl

Venereal disease

A combat wound

Rheumatism
8 What is Lady Fidget's initial reaction to the “eunuch” Horner?
Curiosity

Hilarity

Disgust

Attraction
9 Why does Sir Jasper want his wife to spend time with the “eunuch” Horner?
Horner has been pestering Sir Jasper for this opportunity

Sir Jasper dislikes Horner and wants to punish him with Lady Fidget's company

Horner has money, which he might lose to Lady Fidget at cards

Horner will provide safe companionship while Sir Jasper tends to his business
10 Why does Horner consider a husband a “monster”?
Because husbands inevitably become pathologically jealous

Because husbands inevitably abandon their friends

Because husbands inevitably become abusive

Because husbands inevitably become cuckolds
11 What does Horner say is Lady Fidget's “greatest affectation”?
Her sartorial style

Her intellect

Her liking for the theater

Her virtue
12 Why is Sir Jasper always rushing off?
To see his mistress

To go to church

To see to his business

To see his friends
13 How does Horner imagine his old mistresses will react to him when they hear of his new condition?
They will abandon him

They will want to be just friends

They will pity him

They will be all the more attracted to him
14 How does Horner convince Sir Jasper's entourage that the rumors of his impotence are true?
By feigning an aversion to women

By showing them a note from The Quack

By breaking down in tears

By feigning envy of other men
15 What does Horner infer from Lady Fidget's disgust with him?
That she despises all men

That she loves her husband

That she is naturally unpleasant

That she is naturally lascivious
16 How does Sir Jasper respond to the notion of Horner's impotence?
He finds it enviable

He finds it pitiable

He finds it detestable

He finds it comical
17 What pastime does Sir Jasper recommend for Horner and the ladies?
The theater

Card games

Lawn tennis

Croquet
18 What, in Horner's opinion, is a “lasting, rational, and manly pleasure”?
The theater

Same-sex friendship

Shooting parties

Boating
19 Which of the young libertines advocates for romantic love against male bonding and misogyny?
Dorilant

Horner

Sparkish

Harcourt
20 What is Sparkish's great sin in the view of Horner, Harcourt, and Dorilant?
Affecting wit

Having contempt for women

Seeking to marry Alethea

Social snobbery
21 Whom does Sparkish claim to have left at Whitehall in order to dine with the three wits?
An earl

A duke

A marchioness

The king
22 Why does Sparkish finally rush off in Act I?
Because he has business to tend to

So as not to disappoint his socially exalted friends

So as not to miss the new play

So as not to disappoint Alethea
23 What is Alethea's dowry?
3,000 pounds

5,000 pounds

4,000 pounds

2,000 pounds
24 Why does Horner express surprise that Pinchwife has married?
Because Pinchwife is such a misanthrope

Because Pinchwife formerly seemed indifferent to women

Because Pinchwife was formerly such a rake

Because Pinchwife seems too miserly to support a wife
25 What does Horner say is soon to happen to the newly married Pinchwife?
He will become a cuckold

He will become a wife-abuser

He will become a drunkard

His wife will run away

what techniques does author use in his restoration comedy the country wife to outline the major theme of the play

Like many other Restoration Comedies The Country Wife is characterised by farcical humour that runs throughout the whole play, generated through wit, sexual innuendo and a great deal of dramatic irony.

Asked by Mahesha S #1285238

Answered by Aslan on 1/22/2023 7:35 PM