Q 01/05

What is the subtitle of The Importance of Being Earnest?

A) A Serious Comedy for Trivial People

B) A Comedy of Manners in Three Acts

C) A Farce for the Idle Rich

D) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Answer · why

D) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The joke runs to the final curtain, where Lady Bracknell scolds Jack for showing signs of triviality just as he d...

Q 02/05

The Importance of Being Earnest opened in London in 1895 on which day of the calendar?

A) April Fools' Day

B) Valentine's Day

C) New Year's Eve

D) Boxing Day

Answer · why

B) Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day. The comedy has a 14 February of its own: Cecily announces that she accepted 'Ernest' on that very date, months before she had even me...

Q 03/05

Which Wilde play opened weeks before The Importance of Being Earnest, the last of his four drawing-room comedies?

A) Lady Windermere's Fan

B) An Ideal Husband

C) A Woman of No Importance

D) Salome

Answer · why

B) An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband. It opened that January, so Wilde had two hits playing in the West End at once when he was arrested in April, at the very height of h...

Q 04/05

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell says losing one parent is a misfortune, but losing both looks like what?

A) Carelessness

B) Bad manners

C) Ingratitude

D) A scandal

Answer · why

A) Carelessness

Carelessness. The line caps her interview of Jack as a suitor, conducted notebook in hand against a list of eligible young men she shares with the Duc...

Q 05/05

In The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the name of Algernon's invented invalid friend?

A) Gribsby

B) Bunbury

C) Merriman

D) Lane

Answer · why

B) Bunbury

Bunbury. Whenever a dull invitation looms, Algernon announces that his friend has had a relapse and must be visited at once, a dodge he proudly calls ...