SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1.What is the other title of “She Stoops to Conquer”?

Mistakes of a Night

2. What is the Sequel of “She Stoops to Conquer” and written by whom?

“Tony Lumpkin in Town” by John O’ Keefe.

3. Who popularize the phrase “She Stoops to Conquer”?

Aphra Behn popularizes the phrase in her book “The Rover” in the mid 17th century.

4. How Marlow acted? Sheepishly

5. To whom the play is dedicated?  Samuel Johnson

6. Where it is derived from?

Farquhar’s Beaux Strategem

7. Who composed prologue?

David Garrick

8. What is the paper started by Goldsmith?

The Bee

9. who is the old styled gentleman?

Mr. Hardcastle

10. Why did he hate the city life?

City demoralized the city life.

11. “Don’t I look like cherry” who says?

Miss. Hardcastle

12. Who called “She Stoops to Conquer as lowest of all forces”?

Horace Walpole

13. Who is the chief of the servants?

Diggory

14. what are the stories that Hardcastle used to tell?

Prince Eugene and Duke of Malborough

15. who is the only character not happy at the end of the play?

Mrs. Hardcastle

16. Who enjoys “French frippery”?

Kate

17.Who recites the play's prologue?

Mr. Woodward

18.What does Mr. Hardcastle disdain most of all?

Town manners

19. Why does Mrs. Hardcastle defend Tony?

She's his mother

20. Why does Mr. Hardcastle worry about Kate?

He worries the town manners have infected he.r

21. How does Kate dress in the morning?

Fashionably

22. How does Kate dress in the evenings?

Plainly

23. Who does Hardcastle hope Kate will marry at the beginning of the play?

Marlow

24. Who does Mrs. Hardcastle hope Tony will marry?

Constance Neville

25. Which character is the best example of moderation?

Kate

26. What is Mrs. Hardcastle's great vice?

Vanity

27. Why is Constance excited to hear Marlow is visiting?

Hastings is with him

28. What is Constance's inheritance?

Jewels

29. Where does Tony drink with friends?

The Three Pigeons

30. Who does Tony not attack in his pub song?

Drunkards

31. Who is Tony's ally in fooling Marlow and Hastings?

The landlord

32. Why is Tony's practical joke believable?

The Hardcastle home looks like an inn

33. What warning does Hardcastle give his servants?

Not to laugh at his stories

34. What is the name of the head servant?

Diggory

35. Which character has a complicated relationship with his or her mother?

Tony

36. What happens when Marlow speaks to a "modest" woman?

They petrify him

37. Why must Hastings hide his identity?

He wants to elope with Constance.

38. What do Hastings and Marlow want for dinner?

Calf's brains

39. Which of the following is not an example of Marlow's vanity?

His worry about education

40. What does Hardcastle expect to find in Marlow?

Modesty

41. Who discovers Tony's lie first?

Hastings

42. What is made fun of in the prologue?

Shakespeare and the moral of the play 

43. What reveals that Goldsmith was a doctor?

The prologue where it states: "One hope remains-hearing the maid was ill, A doctor comes this night to show his skill..." 

44. Rather than a moral lesson, what is more likely to help a person see his own mistakes?

Messing up 

45. How do you know Hardcastle is old-fashioned?

His house looks like an inn and he doesn't like the London fashion. 

46. Describe Tony.

Fat, irresponsible, immature, trouble-maker.

47. What is comical about the difference between Mrs. Hardcastle's feelings about Tony and Mr. Hardcastle's feelings?

Mrs. Hardcastle babies Tony and Mr. Hardcaslte is strict so they don't get along well. 

48. What agreement have Kate and her father made regarding her manner of dress?

Her father prefers plain clothing so she will wear fancy clothes when he is not around but will go plain when he is. 

49.What information does her father tell her regarding a visitor?

Kate might marry him. 

50. What is Mrs. Hardcaslte's relationship with Constance Neville?

Mrs. Hardcastle's ward and niece. 

51. What is Neville's position in respect to Tony and his mother?

She hates Tony, but her aunt wants her to marry him for jewels and money. Miss Neville just wants to please her. 

52. What practical joke does Tony play in the visitors from London?

Tells them they are too far from their destination and that they will need to stay overnight at an inn, but instead he takes them to the Hardcastle manor. 

53. How can reader's accept the idea that Marlow and Hastings will believe the Hardcastle house to be an inn?

The house looks like an inn and Marlow and Hardcastle don't know each other. Also because in the evening Kate is dressed like a servant. 

54. What important information does Constance give to the reader and Kate about Marlow?

That he is shy around women. 

55.What does Mr. Hardcastle say to his daughter about Marlow that pleases her? Disturbs her?

Marlow in intelligent to be productive but he keeps to himself. 

56. What does Kate's respnse reveal about her father's warnings?

She isn't going to let it bother her if Marlow doesn't love her. 

57. What does this comment of Kate's reveal: "But I vow I'm disposing of the husband before I have secured the lover?"

She can laugh at herself. 

58. In the second scene, at the tavern, do you think the commoners are making fun of the gentry, or the playwright is making fun of people who put on airs?

The people who put on airs. 

59. What manners of country living is Goldsmith showing to be incongruous or pretentious?

Kate is controlled by social class. Tony doesn't do much but uses intelligence yet not enough to live up to standards, Marlow can't be himself around women but Tony is treated with contempt. Mr. Hardcastle puts on great airs by knowing little. 

60. Why are Hardcastle's servants so inept?

They aren't really servants. 

61. Why does Marlow feel that he will never marry>

He cannot talk well with women of upper class. 

62. What is comical of the scene between Hardcastle, Marlow, and Hastings?

Marlow and Hastings believe Hardcastle and inkeeper, so they were stunned by his audacity. 

63. How does Hastings find out about Tony's practical joke?

Meets Miss Nevile and she explains. 

64. Why is Constance reluctant to run off and elope with Hastings?

She wants her jewels from Miss Hardcastle before she leaves. 

65. What is Kate's plan for Marlow?

 She plans to keep up his delusion.

66. What does the maid question about Kate's plan?

 Whether she can act the part of a barmaid.

67. What does Kate propose that her father and Sir Charles do?

 Hide behind a screen while she meets with Marlow.

68. What does Jeremy, Marlow's servant, verify?

 That Marlow ordered his servants to drink.

69. What has been established for Hastings in Act 3?

 That he is in Hardcastle's house and not an inn.

70. What does Kate think will be her father's reaction when he hears the whole story?

That he will laugh Marlow out of his resolve to leave.

71. Does Mr. Hardcastle think he might change his mind about Marlow?

No, he trusts his first impression.

72. What is Hastings' double entendre about the calf brains on the menu?

 Let your brains be knocked out, sir, I don't like them.

73. Mr. Hardcastle is furious with Marlow. What does he say out loud to himself about the young man? He is the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue.

74. After the meal problem is settled, what demands do Marlow and Hastings make?

That they go see to the making of their beds

75. What does Tony come running into the room to announce?

That he has Constance's jewels to give her.

76. What do Hastings and Marlow believe

 That what Tony told them about the innkeeper is true

77. How does Kate as the barmaid rebuff Marlow.

 By telling him how she thinks he acted with Miss Hardcastle exactly like it happened

78. Who enters while Kate is struggling to get her hand away from Marlow?

Mr. Hardcastle.

79. What funny comment does Hardcastle make to the audience about the behavior of Marlow and Hastings?

It may be modern modesty but looks like old-fashioned impudence.

80. What does Marlow say that Kate overhears?

That Miss Hardcastle is too grave and sentimental for him.

81. As Marlow kneels in front of Kate, what does his father say, coming out of hiding?

Charles, how you have deceived me!

82. What does Constance attempt to do?

 Get Mrs. Hardcastle away by telling her a story about Tony.

83. Why does Mr. Hardcastle not go back into the house?

 He is sure he heard two voices and wants to know who else is there.

84. What does Mrs. Hardcastle not recognize as Tony and Constance banter back and forth?

The sarcasm in their declarations of love for each other.

85. What does Sir Charles say will happen if what Kate has said turns out to be true?

All his happiness with his son shall come to an end.

86. What does Marlow say to Kate when he enters and sees her standing there?

That he has triffled with his heart and must go.

87. How does Kate respond to Marlow's declaration of love?

That she could not gain her happiness by lessening his.

88. What does Mrs. Hardcastle promise to give Constance right away

 The jewels.