Wacky Victorian Rules of Etiquette
People are expected to come to a party at this time.
What is 15 minutes late?
Fill in the blank
Jack: “I am in love with ___” (297)
Gwendolen
Joan Didion and George Orwell titled their essay.
What is “Why I Write”?
Jack asks this person for permission to marry Gwendolen.
Who is Algernon?
Jack is this amount of years.
What is twenty-nine years old?
The rule “Never looking at goods without the intention of buying them” is this kind of Victorian etiquette.
What is shopping etiquette?
Fill in the blank
“Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants ___ drink the champagne?” (295)
invariably
This is the reason the class got to spray paint the walls in Ms. O’Shea’s classroom.
What is we were inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s credo work?
Algernon gives this reason to leave his family’s company.
What is Bunbury is sick?
The connection between Thomas Cardew and Cecily is this.
What is grandchild and grandparent?
This was the length and time of an average “season” in the Victorian era.
What is 3 months. April - June
Fill in the blank
“Jack?. . . No, there is very little ___ in the name Jack” (306).
music
Name the author and fill in the blank (two different words)
“Let me tell you one thing about why ___ ___: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel”
Didion, Writers write
Jack thinks this is why he has to kill Ernest.
What is so he can marry Gwendolen
Lady Bracknell has these opinions towards the French and German.
What is she hates the French but loves the German?
This is why you should never neglect little things.
What is it can affect the comfort of others
Fill in the blanks (they are different)
“The truth is rarely ___ and never ___” (301)
pure, simple
Name the author and fill in the blank (two different words)
“Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from ___ ___”
Orwell, aesthetic considerations
Double and triple points possible
This person is in love with Ernest.
Who is Gwendolen (1 point) Cecily (2X point) both (triple points)
Fill in the quote blanks (3 words that are different)
Lady Bracknell says “Her hair is ___ ___ ___” about Lady Harbury.
What is gold with grief?
This is what you are supposed to first do before preferring others?
What is denying yourself
Who said it and fill in the blank (two different words)
__ [___] “I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life Lane” (296)
Algernon, languidly
This was the class’s credo.
What is “Love who you are and enjoy life to its chockful"
(one point per answer (two possible points))
There is the reason Lady Bracknell does not want Jack to marry Gwendolen.
What is she does not think he is an eligible bachelor, he was not born into wealth, and does not think he is capable of providing for her.
Using our knowledge of Victorian etiquette, who is the best representation of Victorian ideals in act one.
Who is: Lady Brackenell (1 point) or Lane (2 points)