The Country Wife Quizzes

The Country Wife Quiz 1

By Julia Yost · Edited by Damien Chazelle · Last reviewed November 30, 2010

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

Apathetically

Critically

Appreciatively
3 Whom has Horner employed to spread the rumor of his impotence?

Mr. Sparkish

The Quack

Sir Jasper Fidget

Jack Pinchwife
4 From what country has Horner recently returned?

Germany

France

Italy

Switzerland
5 Who has supposedly deprived Horner of his sexual potency?

An English surgeon

An English prostitute

A French surgeon

A French prostitute
6 Why does Horner think that his ruse will help him with the ladies?

He believes in reverse-psychology

It will cause husbands and parents to let down their guards

Low-testosterone males were fashionable in the Restoration

Ladies will find him more approachable
7 Why did the supposed French surgeon supposedly operate on Horner?

A combat wound

Rheumatism

Venereal disease

Injuries sustained in a tavern brawl
8 What is Lady Fidget's initial reaction to the “eunuch” Horner?

Disgust

Attraction

Curiosity

Hilarity
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 will provide safe companionship while Sir Jasper tends to his business

Horner has money, which he might lose to Lady Fidget at cards
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 liking for the theater

Her intellect

Her sartorial style

Her virtue
12 Why is Sir Jasper always rushing off?

To see his friends

To see his mistress

To see to his business

To go to church
13 How does Horner imagine his old mistresses will react to him when they hear of his new condition?

They will be all the more attracted to him

They will abandon him

They will want to be just friends

They will pity 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 feigning envy of other men

By showing them a note from The Quack

By breaking down in tears
15 What does Horner infer from Lady Fidget's disgust with him?

That she is naturally lascivious

That she is naturally unpleasant

That she loves her husband

That she despises all men
16 How does Sir Jasper respond to the notion of Horner's impotence?

He finds it detestable

He finds it pitiable

He finds it comical

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

Card games

Lawn tennis

Croquet

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

Boating

Same-sex friendship

The theater

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

Harcourt

Sparkish

Dorilant

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

Seeking to marry Alethea

Social snobbery

Affecting wit

Having contempt for women
21 Whom does Sparkish claim to have left at Whitehall in order to dine with the three wits?

A duke

The king

An earl

A marchioness
22 Why does Sparkish finally rush off in Act I?

Because he has business to tend to

So as not to miss the new play

So as not to disappoint Alethea

So as not to disappoint his socially exalted friends
23 What is Alethea's dowry?

5,000 pounds

3,000 pounds

4,000 pounds

2,000 pounds
24 Why does Horner express surprise that Pinchwife has married?

Because Pinchwife formerly seemed indifferent to women

Because Pinchwife is such a misanthrope

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 wife-abuser

He will become a drunkard

He will become a cuckold

His wife will run away

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