4. Vocabulary Vocabulary

5. Elements of Comedy

6. Satire of the Victorian Age

7. Oscar Wilde

8. Plot Development

9. Character Development

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11. 1 - 100 I hope I guess this question right – I mean, vocabulary is not really my forte.

12. 1 - 100 What is strength?

13. My sentiments exactly…

14. 1 - 100 What is feelings, emotions, or thoughts?

15. You have been under my tutelage for almost the entire school year.

16. 1 - 100 What is authority or instruction?

17. Mr. Worthing, rise from that semi- recumbent position!

18. 1 - 100 What is halfway lying down?

19. Young Cecily is my ward.

20. 1 - 100 What is someone under legal guardianship?

21. 1 - 100 The type of comedy depends largely on physical comedy.

22. 1 - 100 What is burlesque?

23. A comedy primarily intended to make people laugh.

24. 1 - 100 What is farce?

25. This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell – obstructs the relationship of another character.

26. 1 - 100 What is a blocking figure?

27. In this element of comedy, every single character gets what he or she wants in the end.

28. 1 - 100 What is an all-inclusive resolution?

29. A plot in which the protagonist, no matter how dissolute, reforms in the end.

30. 1 - 100 What is sentimental comedy?

31. 1 - 100 In the Victorian age, this class paradoxically had more freedom than the other classes.

32. 1 - 100 What is the lower class?

33. In the Victorian Age, the first born son would inherit the wealth, while the second born son would do this.

34. 1 - 100 What is join the army or become a priest?

35. This important social interruption usually took place at 4 PM in the Victorian Age.

36. 1 - 100 What is tea time?

37. This is the British term for an apartment or floor.

38. 1 - 100 What is a flat?

39. Upper class members of society usually had one house in the country and one house “in town” – here.

40. 1 - 100 What is London?

41. 1 - 100 Oscar Wilde lived during this century.

42. 1 - 100 What is the 19 th century?

43. Oscar Wilde lived during this era, which was named for the queen of England.

44. 1 - 100 What is the Victorian Age?

45. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to hard labor in prison for this reason.

46. 1 - 100 What is his homosexuality?

47. Oscar Wilde was a leader in this movement, named for a word that refers to beauty.

48. 1 - 100 What is the aesthetic movement?

49. Oscar Wilde was born in this country.

50. 1 - 100 What is Ireland?

51. 1 - 100 This is where Mr. Thomas Cardew found Jack when he was a baby.

52. 1 - 100 What is in a cloakroom at a railway station?

53. This is the reason that Jack wants to be immediately christened.

54. 1 - 100 What is he wants to make his name Ernest to please Gwendolyn?

55. The letters from Ernest that Cecily kept in a box tied with ribbons were actually written by this person.

56. 1 - 100 Who is Cecily?

57. This is Lady Bracknell’s reaction when she discovers that Jack smokes.

58. 1 - 100 What is approval?

59. This is Algernon’s term for one who creates fanciful stories to get out of societal commitments.

60. 1 - 100 What is a Bunburyist?

61. 1 - 100 “I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being earnest!”

62. 1 - 100 Who is Jack?

63. “Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.”

64. 1 - 100 Who is Algernon?

65. “Well, to speak with perfect candor, Cecily, I wish that you were fully forty- two, and more than usually plain for your age.”

66. 1 - 100 Who is Gwendolyn?

67. “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

68. 1 - 100 Who is Lady Bracknell?

69. “There were no cucumbers at the market.”

70. 1 - 100 Who is Lane?

72. Act 3 of the play could be considered this type of scene, as characters who have previously had mistaken roles finally discover or reveal their true identities.

73. What is a recognition scene?