1. The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May ____?
A:) 1774
B:) 1776
C:) 1777
D:) 1778
springline- Correct option: C:) 1777
2. The School for Scandal ; Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake discuss her various scandal-spreading plots. Lady Sneerwell confides that Joseph wants Maria, who is an heiress, and that Maria wants______?
A:) Charles Surface
B:) Joseph Surface
C:) Oliver Surface
D:) Careless
springline- Correct option: A:) Charles Surface
3. The School for Scandal ; Joseph arrives to confer with Lady Sneerwell. Maria herself then enters, fleeing the attentions of Sir Benjamin Backbite and his uncle, Crabtree. Who enters and ironically talks about how ‘tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers’ ?
A:) Lady Sneerwell
B:) Mrs .Candour
C:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
D:) Charles Surface
springline- Correct option: B:) Mrs .Candour
4. The School for Scandal ; Lady Sneerwell confides that Joseph wants Maria, who is an heiress, and that Maria wants Charles. Thus she and Joseph are plotting to alienate Maria from Charles by putting out rumours of an affair between Charles and Sir Peter's new young wife_____?
A:) Mrs. Candour
B:) Careless
C:) Lady Teazle
D:) Maria
springline- Correct option: C:) Lady Teazle
5. The School for Scandal ; Sir Benjamin and Crabtree enter, bringing a good deal of gossip with them. One item is the imminent return of the Surface brothers' rich uncle Sir Oliver from the ____?
A:) East Indies
B:) West Indies
C:) East America
D:) West America
springline- Correct option: A:) East Indies
6. Sir Peter argues with his wife, Lady Teazle, refusing to be ‘ruined by [her] extravagance.’ He reminds her of her recent and far humbler country origins. Who excuses herself by appealing to ‘the fashion’, and departs to visit Lady Sneerwell?
A:) Sir Peter Teazle
B:) Maria
C:) Mrs. Candour
D:) Lady Teazle
springline- Correct option: D:) Lady Teazle
7. The School for Scandal ; Sir Oliver calls on his old friend Sir Peter. He is amused by Sir Peter's marriage to a young wife. Their talk turns to the Surface brothers. Who praises Joseph's high morals ?
A:) Sir Harry Bumper
B:) Charles Surface
C:) Sir Peter Teazle
D:) Lady sneerwell
springline- Correct option: C:) Sir Peter Teazle
8. The School for Scandal ; Rowley describes his plan for Sir Oliver to visit each of the brothers incognito to test their characters. Who will disguise himself as their needy relative Mr. Stanley, and ask each for his help?
A:) Sir Oliver Surface
B:) Joseph Surface
C:) Crabtree
D:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
springline- Correct option: A:) Sir Oliver Surface
9. Rowley also brings in the ‘friendly Jew’ Moses, a moneylender who has tried to help Charles, to explain Charles' position. Moses mentions that he is to introduce Charles to yet another moneylender that very evening. Who is that another moneylender?
A:) Second Gentleman
B:) Mr. Premium
C:) Trip
D:) Rowley
springline- Correct option: B:) Mr. Premium
10. Sir Peter tries to convince Maria to marry Joseph expressing him as a worthier match than Charles, whom she favours. When she is not persuaded, he threatens her with ‘the authority of a guardian’. She goes, and Lady Teazle enters asking her husband for _____?
A:) two hundred pounds
B:) three hundred pounds
C:) one fifty pounds
D:) one hundred pounds
springline- Correct option: A:) two hundred pounds
11. Mr. Premium arrives with Moses at Charles' house, While they are waiting in the hall, Trip, the servant, tries to negotiate a loan on his own account from Moses. Who concludes that ‘this is the temple of dissipation indeed’?
A:) Joseph Surface
B:) Charles Surface
C:) Moses
D:) Sir Oliver
springline- Correct option: A:) Joseph Surface
12. Charles and his raucous guests drink heavily and sing merry songs, as they prepare for a night of gambling. Charles raises a toast to Maria. Moses and ‘Premium’ enter, and Sir Oliver is dismayed at the scene. Charles does not recognise his long-lost _____?
A:) nephew
B:) aunty
C:) Friend
D:) Uncle
springline- Correct option: D:) Uncle
13. Sir Oliver and Moses leave with Rowley entering shortly after, and Charles sends a hundred pounds of the proceeds for the relief of ‘Mr. Stanley’, despite Rowley's objection. Sir Oliver, reflecting on Charles's character with Moses, is met by Rowley, who has brought him the hundred pounds sent to _____?
A:) First Gentleman
B:) Stanley
C:) Second Gentleman
D:) Rowley
springline- Correct option: B:) Stanley
14. Who anxiously awaiting a visit from Lady Teazle, is told by a servant that she has just left ‘her chair at the milliner's next door' and so has the servant draw a screen across the window ?
A:) Charles
B:) Sir Harry Bumper
C:) Joseph
D:) Careless
springline- Correct option: C:) Joseph
15. The School for Scandal ; Sir Peter decides to hide, and have Joseph sound Charles out about his relationship with Lady Teazle. He starts behind the screen, but sees the corner of Lady Teazle's ______?
A:) Shadow
B:) Petticoat
C:) Sandal
D:) picture
springline- Correct option: B:) Petticoat
16. The humorous epilogue, written by George Colman the Elder, is to be ‘Spoken by Lady Teazle.’ It portrays her as somewhat regretful of leaving country domesticity for London society, and includes an elaborate parody of a famous speech in Shakespeare's _______?
A:) Hamlet
B:) Macbeth
C:) Romeo and Juliet
D:) Othello
springline- Correct option: D:) Othello
17. The School for Scandal ; In its earliest stages, as detailed by Thomas Moore. Who developed two separate play sketches, one initially entitled ‘The Slanderers’ that began with Lady Sneerwell and Spatter (equivalent to Snake in the final version), and the other involving the Teazles?
A:) Samuel Johnson
B:) Sheridan
C:) Thomson
D:) Collins
springline- Correct option: B:) Sheridan
18. The School for Scandal ; Various editions of the play exhibit several relatively minor textual differences. One reason is that Sheridan revised his text repeatedly, not only prior to its first production. The play did not appear in an authorised edition during Sheridan's lifetime, though it was printed in Dublin in 1788 from a copy that the author had sent to his ______?
A:) Wife
B:) Father
C:) Friend
D:) Sister
springline- Correct option: D:) Sister
19. Charles Lamb wrote that ‘This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley’, but criticised ‘sentimental incompatibilities’ even while admitting that ‘the gaiety upon the whole is buoyant’, Who called the play ‘perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue ?
A:) William Blake
B:) George Crabbe
C:) Edmund Gosse
D:) William Collins
springline- Correct option: C:) Edmund Gosse
20. In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society. The comedy-of-manners genre originated in the New Comedy period (325–260 BC:) of _____?
A:) Classical Latin
B:) Classical Greece
C:) Roman Classical
D:) Germanic Classical
springline- Correct option: B:) Classical Greece
21. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, also he was an Irish____?
A:) Satirist
B:) Critic
C:) Theorist
D:) Philosopher
springline- Correct option: A:) Satirist
22. Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then fashionable Dorset Street. His mother, Frances Sheridan, was a playwright and novelist. She had two plays produced in London in the early _____?
A:) 1770s
B:) 1750s
C:) 1760s
D:) 1780s
springline- Correct option: C:) 1760s
23. Sheridan most famous play, The School for Scandal, premiered at Drury Lane on 8 May 1777. It is considered one of the greatest comedies of manners in English. It was followed by The Critic (1779), an updating of the satirical Restoration play _____?
A:) The Ghost of Flea
B:) St Patrick’s Day
C:) Newton
D:) The Rehearsal
springline- Correct option: D:) The Rehearsal
24. Sheridan held the posts of Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall (1804–1807) and Treasurer of the Navy (1806–1807). Sheridan was noted for his close political relationship with the _____?
A:) Prince Henry
B:) Prince of Wales
C:) Earl of Surrey
D:) Prince of Charming
springline- Correct option: B:) Prince of Wales
25. A Royal Society of Arts blue plaque was unveiled in 1881 to commemorate Sheridan at 14 Savile Row in Mayfair. In 1825 Who published a sympathetic two-volume biography, Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which became a major influence on subsequent perceptions ?
A:) Thomas Moore
B:) William Blake
C:) Thomas Gray
D:) James Thomson
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Moore
26. The School For Scandal; Who is one of Lady Sneerwell’s friends who also likes to spread rumors. She is a hypocrite because she affirms that spreading rumors is bad, even though she does this too, who is she?
A:) Lady Teazle
B:) Mrs. Candour
C:) Maria
D:) Snake
springline- Correct option: A:) Lady Teazle
27. A young girl, one of the only characters who doesn’t like to gossip, She can be viewed as a symbol for what is pure and good. She loves Charles, but Joseph tries to break them up; he almost succeeds when rumors are spread about an affair between Lady Sneerwell and Charles .Whose Character sketch is this in The School for Scandal?
A:) Lady Teazle
B:) Careless
C:) Maria
D:) Trip
springline- Correct option: C:) Maria
28. In School for Scandal, Who is one of Sir Oliver’s nephews, he is a young man who likes to spend money; he has a kind heart and is open about his flaws, he is grateful for the help his uncle provides and refuses to sell his portrait out of respect even when Mr. Premium (really Sir Oliver in disguise) offers to pay a fortune for it. Who is he?
A:) Sir Peter Teazle
B:) Sir Oliver Surface
C:) Joseph Surface
D:) Charles
springline- Correct option: D:) Charles
29. Who is promiscuous and propositions Lady Teazle to have an affair and he loves money and he refuses to help his poor relative, Stanley (really Sir Oliver in disguise), telling him that he has no money, even though this in not true, Who is he?
A:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
B:) Charles Surface
C:) Joseph Surface
D:) Sir Oliver Surface
springline- Correct option: C:) Joseph Surface
30. In The School For Scandal, Who is a pompous, gossipy young gentleman who pays court to Maria, usually with his evil-tongued uncle Crabtee in tow?
A:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
B:) Sir Harry Bumper
C:) Charles
D:) Moses
springline- Correct option: A:) Sir Benjamin Backbite