IOBE Key Moments

Question 1

What are the key scenes?

Answer 1

1. cigarette case
2. mock engagement
3. Jack’s interrogation
4. Jack in mourning
5. Cecily’s diary
6. the tea scene
7. muffin scene
8. Cecily is interviewed
9. Jack’s identity is revealed

Question 2

1 - key characters

Answer 2

Jack and Algy

Question 3

1 - elements of comedy

Answer 3

1. Jack begins his role of the ingenue
2. the unearnestness of the characters is introduced
3. mocking of marriage

Question 4

1 - quotations

Answer 4

1. a very ungentlemanly thing
2. some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall
3. repetition of ‘earnest’
4. if you ever get married + you will be very glad to know Bunbury
5. three is a company and two is none

Question 5

1 - comedic devices

Answer 5

1. torture of the ingenue
2. irony

Question 6

2 - characters

Answer 6

Jack and Gwendolen

Question 7

2 - elements of comedy

Answer 7

1. inversion of gender stereotypes
2. mocking of marriage
3. Jack as the ingenue

Question 8

2 - quotations

Answer 8

1. produces vibrations
2. i must get christened at once
3. may I propose to you now?
4. [goes on his knees]
5. I knew I was destined to love you

Question 9

2 - comedic devices

Answer 9

1. physical comedy
2. bawdy humour

Question 10

3 - characters

Answer 10

Jack and Lady Bracknell

Question 11

3 - elements of comedy

Answer 11

1. trivial desires
2. paradoxical reversal of standards
3. comic disbelief

Question 12

3 - key quotations

Answer 12

1. a hand bag !
2. do you smoke?
3. form an alliance with a parcel
4. the unfashionable side
5. ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit, touch it the bloom is gone

Question 13

3 - comedic devices

Answer 13

1. subversion of stereotypes
2. comedic climax, torture of ingenue

Question 14

4 - characters

Answer 14

Jack, Miss Prism, Chasuble, Cecily

Question 15

4 - elements of comedy

Answer 15

1. mockery of the dead, desensitisation
2. hyperbolic behaviour
3. false morals

Question 16

4 - quotations

Answer 16

1. dead!
2. he died abroad; in Paris
3. as a man sows, so shall he reap
4. people who live entirely for pleasure usually are (unmarried)
5. adapted to almost any occasion

Question 17

4 - comedic devices

Answer 17

1. stichomythia
2. physical comedy of mourning regalia

Question 18

5 - key characters

Answer 18

Cecily and Algy

Question 19

5 - elements of comedy

Answer 19

1. gender inversions, Cecily’s driving force
2. the melodramatic superficiality of love
3. trviality

Question 20

5 - quotations

Answer 20

1. one should speak fluently and not cough
2. wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly
3. a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Earnest
4. my own sweet Cecily
5. I can hardly read them without crying a little

Question 21

5 - comedic devices

Answer 21

1. repetition
2. hyperboles

Question 22

6 - key characters

Answer 22

Gwendolen and Cecily

Question 23

6 - elements of comedy

Answer 23

1. Cecily and Gwendolen match linguistic abilities
2. change of behaviour around the servants
3. comic rivalry

Question 24

6 - quotations

Answer 24

1. a friendship quite like ours
2. i suppose that is why you live in town?
3. agricultural depression
4. detestable girl [aside]
5. my first impressions of people are never wrong

Question 25

6 - comedic devices

Answer 25

1. melodramatic behaviour
2. repetition

Question 26

7 - characters

Answer 26

Jack and Algy

Question 27

7 - elements of comedy

Answer 27

1. comic rivalry
2. gluttony, trivial concerns
3. false earnestness

Question 28

7 - quotations

Answer 28

1. perfectly heartless
2. I love her + I adore her
3. I never go without my dinner
4. but I have not been christened for years
5. eating is the only thing that consoles me

Question 29

8 - characters

Answer 29

Lady Bracknell, Cecily, Jack

Question 30

8 - elements of comedy

Answer 30

1. Lady Bracknell’s mercenary values and mask slip
2. Jack reclaiming power over Lady Bracknell
3. double standards

Question 31

8 - key quotations

Answer 31

1. Bunbury? Oh he was quite exploded
2. [bows coldly]
3. a hundred and thirty thousand pounds
4. Cecily, you may now kiss me
5. I absolutely decline to give

Question 32

8 - comedic devices

Answer 32

1. physical comedy
2. hypocricy

Question 33

8 - comedic devices

Answer 33

1. physical comedy
2. hypocrisy

Question 34

9 - characters

Answer 34

All

Question 35

9 - elements of comedy

Answer 35

1. happy resolution
2. slow torture of ingenue
3. Miss Prism’s reveal

Question 36

9 - quotations

Answer 36

1. Algernon’s older brother
2. This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last
3. explosion of a temperance beverage
4. I am unmarried
5. The vital importance of being Earnest
6. at last!

Question 37

9 - comedic devices

Answer 37

1. happy ending
2. attitudes to marriage