Wilde's Aphorisms (The Importance Of Being Earnest)
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Some aphorisms of Oscar Wilde in The importance of being Earnest.
- 1.No gentleman ever takes ________________.
- A.
Exercise
- B.
Risks
- C.
Shelters
- D.
Showers
- E.
German lessons
- 2.The good [novels] ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what ________ means.
- A.
Literature
- B.
Fiction
- C.
Reality
- D.
Comedy
- E.
Tragedy
- 3.All women become like their mothers. That is their __________. No man does. That's his.
- A.
Dream
- B.
Punishment
- C.
Heavenly gift
- D.
Tragedy
- E.
Comedy
- 4.No married man is ever attractive except to his _____________.
- A.
Mother
- B.
Sister
- C.
Daughter
- D.
Wife
- E.
Mistress
- 5.___________ is the primary duty of life.
- A.
Death
- B.
Drug
- C.
Youth
- D.
Health
- E.
Trivialities
- 6.Fools always talk about ___________.
- A.
The clever people
- B.
The clever things
- C.
The fool people
- D.
The weather
- E.
Modern literature
- 7.__________ isn't quite a sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet refined girl.
- A.
The weather
- B.
Politics
- C.
Love
- D.
The truth
- E.
The untruth
- 8.It is very vulgar to talk about _____________.
- A.
The weather
- B.
Politics
- C.
God
- D.
Real things
- E.
One's business
- 9.Nothing annoys people so much as _____________.
- A.
Talk about the weather
- B.
Married life
- C.
Not receiving invitations
- D.
Insufficient sleep
- E.
Dinner parties
- 10.A man who desires to get married should know ______________.
- A.
How to talk about the weather
- B.
How to love
- C.
Everything
- D.
Nothing
- E.
Either everything or nothing
- 11.Whenever people talk to me about ___________, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
- A.
The weather
- B.
Politics
- C.
Love
- D.
Themselves
- E.
Trivialities
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