1. The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as one of the best _________?
A:) Restoration comedies
B:) Renaissance comedies
C:) Reformation Comedies
D:) Romantic Comedies
springline- Correct option: A:) Restoration comedies
2. The Way of the World ; Initially, however, the play struck many audience members as continuing the immorality of the previous decades, and was not well received. The play is centred on the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant ,originally played by John Verbruggen and______?
A:) Richard Burbage
B:) Anne Bracegirdle
C:) Will Kempe
D:) Huges
springline- Correct option:B:) Anne Bracegirdle
3. The play ‘The Way of the World’ is centred on the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant .In order for them to marry and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt__________?
A:) Lady Wishfort
B:) Fainall
C:) Betty
D:) Mrs. Fainall
springline- Correct option:A:) Lady Wishfort
4. Fainall, is having a secret affair with Mrs. Marwood, a friend of Fainall's wife. Mrs. Fainall, who is Lady Wishfort's daughter, herself once had an affair with Mirabell and remains his friend. In the meantime, Whose servant Waitwell is married to Foible ?",["A:) Lady Wishfort
B:) Fainall
C:) Mirabell
D:) Mrs. Marwood
springline- Correct option:C:) Mirabell
5. In a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards. Who comes and tells Mirabell that Waitwell (Mirabell's male servant) and Foible (Lady Wishfort's female servant) were married that morning ?",["A:) Betty
B:) footman
C:) Cook
D:) Friend of Mirabell
springline- Correct option:B:) footman
6. Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood are discussing their hatred of men. Who appears and accuses Mrs. Marwood (with whom he is having an affair) of loving Mirabell (which she does)?",["A:) Waitwell
B:) Foible
C:) Fainall
D:) Sir Rowland
springline- Correct option:C:) Fainall
7. Lady Wishfort is a very bitter lady who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant. Meanwhile, Lady Wishfort, a widow, wants to marry again and has her eyes on an uncle of Mirabell's, the wealthy _______?",["A:) Mr.Marwood
B:) Waitwell
C:) Sir Wilful
D:) Sir Rowland
springline- Correct option:D:) Sir Rowland
8. Mirabell's former lover tells Mirabell that she hates her husband, and they begin to plot to deceive Lady Wishfort into giving her consent to the marriage. Who is Mirabell’s former lover ?
A:) Millamant
B:) Foible
C:) Betty
D:) Mrs. Fainall
springline- Correct option:D:) Mrs. Fainall
9. Who appears in the park and, angry about the previous night (when Mirabell was confronted by Lady Wishfort), she tells Mirabell of her displeasure in his plan, which she only has a vague idea about ?",["A:) Lady Wishfort
B:) Millamant
C:) Mrs. Marwood
D:) Mrs. Fainall
springline- Correct option:B:) Millamant
10. Mrs. Fainall discusses this plan with Foible, but this is overheard by Mrs. Marwood. She later tells the plan to Fainall, who decides that he will take his wife's money and go away with _______?",["A:) Mrs. Marwood
B:) Waitwell
C:) Betty
D:) Sir Rowland
springline- Correct option:A:) Mrs. Marwood
11. Sir Rowland is, however, Waitwell in disguise, and the plan is to entangle Lady Wishfort in a marriage which cannot go ahead, because it would be bigamy, not to mention a social disgrace. Who is encouraged by Foible to marry ?",["A:) Betty
B:) Lady Wishfort
C:) Waitwell
D:) Fainall
springline- Correct option:B:) Lady Wishfort
12. Mirabell and Millamant, equally strong-willed, discuss in detail the conditions under which they would accept each other in marriage, showing the depth of their feeling for each other. Otherwise it known as the______?",["A:) proviso scene
B:) Aftermath scene
C:) Revelation
D:) Resolution
springline- Correct option:A:) proviso scene
13. Mirabell finally proposes to Millamant and, with Mrs. Fainall's encouragement (almost consent, as Millamant knows of their previous relations), Millamant accepts. Mirabell leaves as Lady Wishfort arrives, and she lets it be known that she wants Millamant to marry her nephew, Sir Wilfull Witwoud, who has just arrived from the_______?",["A:) Countryside
B:) Rural area
C:) England
D:) jail
springline- Correct option:A:) Countryside
14. Lady Wishfort later gets a letter telling her about the Sir Rowland plot. Sir Rowland takes the letter and accuses Mirabell of trying to sabotage their wedding. Lady Wishfort agrees to let Sir Rowland bring a marriage contract that _____?",["A:) morning
B:) afternoon
C:) evening
D:) night
springline- Correct option:D:) night
15. Lady Wishfort has found out the plot, and Fainall has had Waitwell arrested. Mrs. Fainall tells Foible that her previous affair with Mirabell is now public knowledge. Who appears with Mrs. Marwood, whom she thanks for unveiling the plot ?",["A:) Lady Wishfort
B:) Waitwell
C:) Foible
D:) Sir Rowland
springline- Correct option:A:) Lady Wishfort
16. Lady Wishfort offers Mirabell her consent to the marriage if he can save her fortune and honour. Who calls on Waitwell who brings a contract from the time before the marriage of the Fainalls in which Mrs. Fainall gives all her property to Mirabell?",["A:) Millamant
B:) Sir Wilful
C:) Mirabell
D:) Mrs. Marwood
springline- Correct option:C:) Mirabell
17. In 1700, the world of London theatre-going had changed significantly from the days of, for example, The Country Wife. Charles II was no longer on the throne, and the jubilant court that revelled in its licentiousness and opulence had been replaced by the far more dour and utilitarian Dutch-inspired court of _________?
A:) Earl of Surrey
B:) William of Orange
C:) Prince of Whales
D:) William of Normandy
springline- Correct option:B:) William of Orange
18. In 1685, the courtly and Cavalier side was in power, and Restoration comedies belittled the bland and foolish losers of the Restoration. However, by 1700, the other side was ascendant. Therefore, The Way of the World's recreation of the older Restoration comedy's patterns is only one of the things that made the play _____?",["A:) usual
B:) unusual
C:) strange comedy
D:) Romantic comedy
springline- Correct option:B:) unusual
19. William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period. He was also a minor political figure in the ________?",["A:) British Tory Pary
B:) British Whig Party
C:) Common Wealth party
D:) British Court
springline- Correct option:B:) British Whig Party
20. Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and _____?",["A:) Ireland
B:) Rome
C:) Italy
D:) Iceland
springline- Correct option:A:) Ireland
21. 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. Sir George Etherege is the first and foremost writer of the comedy of manners. He has left___?",["A:) five comedies
B:) two comedies
C:) three comedies
D:) four comedies
springline- Correct option:C:) three comedies
22. William Congreve was born in Bardsey Grange, on an estate near Ledston, West Riding of Yorkshire. Although Samuel Johnson disputed this, it has since been confirmed by a baptism entry for ‘William, sonne of Mr. William Congreve, of Bardsey grange, baptised 10 February ____?
A:) 1668
B:) 1669
C:) 1667
D:) 1666
springline- Correct option:B:) 1669
23. Congreve was distantly related to Lady Elizabeth Hastings, whose family owned Ledston and was part of the London intelligentsia. He wrote a number of articles about her in the magazine of ____?",["A:) Mindroid
B:) Spiral Spectrum
C:) Tatler
D:) Torch Herd
springline- Correct option:C:) Tatler
24. Congreve achieved fame in 1693 when he wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period. This period was distinguished by the fact that female roles were beginning to be played predominantly by women, and was evident in Congreve's work. Who shaped the English comedy of manners through his use of satire and well-written dialogue ?",["A:) William Congreve
B:) Jonathan Swift
C:) Daniel Defoe
D:) Henry Fielding
springline- Correct option:A:) William Congreve
25. William Congreve; His Play Love for Love (premiered 30 April 1695) staged at the Lincoln's Inn Theatre, which was nearly as well received as his first major success, and The Way of the World , this play was a failure at the time of production but is seen as one of his masterpieces today, and is still revived. Congreve's career as a playwright was successful but brief. How many plays he wrote?",["A:) Six
B:) Three
C:) Four
D:) five
springline- Correct option:D:) five
26. Who came to London from the country to study law but apparently found the life of the fashionable man-about-town more pleasant and also who has pretensions to being a wit?",["A:) Young Witwoud
B:) Fainall
C:) Sir Rowland
D:) Sir Wilful
springline- Correct option:A:) Young Witwoud
27. Who is a elder brother of Young Witwoud, he is forty years old and is planning the grand tour of Europe that was usually made by young men to complete their education ?",["A:) Mirabell
B:) Sir Rowland
C:) Sir Wilfull Witwoud
D:) Betty
springline- Correct option:C:) Sir Wilfull Witwoud
28. Millamant A young, very charming lady, in love with, and loved by, Mirabell. She is the ward of Lady Wishfort because she is the niece of Lady Wishfort's long-dead husband. She is a first cousin of_____?",["A:) Foible
B:) Mrs. Fainall
C:) Mrs. Marwood
D:) Waitwell
springline- Correct option:B:) Mrs. Fainall
29. William Congreve, 1670-1729, was born in Yorkshire, England. As his father was an officer in the army and the commander of a garrison near Cork in Ireland, Congreve was educated at Kilkenny and then at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a slightly younger college-mate of _____?",["A:) Jonathan Swift
B:) Alexander Pope
C:) Daniel Defoe
D:) Henry Fielding
springline- Correct option:A:) Jonathan Swift
30. Mrs. Bracegirdle said the epilogue only makes conventional points, the essential inadequacy of critics who decry plays without knowledge, and the statement that the characters are fictitious, and no individual is represented. In The Way of the World , Mrs. Bracegirdle, who played the role of______?",["A:) Mrs. Marwood
B:) Lady Wishfort
C:) Mrs.Fainall
D:) Millamant
springline- Correct option:D:) Millamant