The Grammardog Guide to The Importance of Being Earnestcontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the satiric farce by Oscar Wilde are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Wordplay, puns and wit are plentiful ("she is a monster without being a myth," "all good looks are a snare," "the shallow mask of manners," "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life," "London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years."). Allusions and symbols satirize Victorian attitudes on gender equality, moral virtue, social class, religion and marriage.
