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The Importance of Knowing Your Lines

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Knowing Your Lines game quiz
"I'll give you a quotation from "The Importance of Being Ernest," and you choose which character says it."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who says, "I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted"?
    Algernon
    Lane
    Jack
    Dr. Chasuble


2. Which character states, "On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure"?
    Gwendolen
    Lady Bracknell
    Cecily
    Jack


3. Who gives the opinion, "To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable"?
    Cecily
    Lady Bracknell
    Algernon
    Gwendolen


4. Who says the following: "It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case"?
    Cecily
    Algernon
    Jack
    Gwendolen


5. Who muses, "Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them"?
    Jack
    Algernon
    Lane
    Dr. Chasuble


6. Which character explains, "You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication"?
    Gwendolyn
    Algernon
    Miss Prism
    Cecily


7. Who reasons, "Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself"?
    Algernon
    Jack
    Cecily
    Lane


8. Which character boasts, "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train"?
    Algernon
    Cecily
    Gwendolen
    Miss Prism


9. This character asks, "And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?"?
    Jack
    Dr. Chasuble
    Lane
    Algernon


10. "I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death. I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger," is noted by whom?
    Lady Bracknell
    Jack
    Algernon
    Gwendolen


11. Who confides, "I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about"?
    Gwendolen
    Lady Bracknell
    Miss Prism
    Cecily


12. Which character proclaims, "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. . . . Touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever"?
    Miss Prism
    Lady Bracknell
    Jack
    Dr. Chasuble


13. Which character speculates, "Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil, I would hang upon her lips. I spoke metaphorically.--My metaphor was drawn from bees"?
    Algernon
    Jack
    Dr. Chasuble
    Gwendolen


14. Who says, "What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it"?
    Dr. Chasuble
    Cecily
    Lady Bracknell
    Miss Prism


15. Which character declares, "Oh! It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read"?
    Cecily
    Miss Prism
    Lady Bracknell
    Algernon


16. Who comments, "We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces"?
    Lady Bracknell
    Gwendolen
    Jack
    Dr. Chasuble


17. Who cautions, "None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts"?
    Cecily
    Dr. Chasuble
    Miss Prism
    Algernon


18. "No doubt you have many other calls of a similar character to make in the neighborhood," is said by whom?
    Cecily
    Jack
    Gwendolen
    Lady Bracknell


19. Who admits, "I hope you will always look at me just like that, especially when there are other people present"?
    Cecily
    Jack
    Algernon
    Gwendolen


20. And finally, who states, "On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest"?
    Gwendolen
    Algernon
    Jack
    Cecily


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