Verifica: "The Importance of Being Earnest" di Wilde

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By which theatrical genre, famous in France and England, was Oscar Wilde inspired to write “The Importance of Being Earnest
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What was Oscar Wilde’s intent in the comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”?

To present and satirise all the hypocrisies and the moralism of Victorian Age

To present and satirise the figure of the typical Dandy, well-dressed, smart and immoral

A moral intent, to show how good and honest can be a person

An homage to the Victorian melodrama by presenting typical situation of this kind of theatre

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What is the misunderstanding between the two female protagonists of “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Cecily and Gwendolen?

They think they are sisters

They think they are engaged to the same person

Cecily thinks that Gwendolen isn’t Lady Bracknell’s real daughter

Gwendolen thinks that Cecily is the lover of Jack, her trustee
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In the end Algernon, one of the main characters of “The Importance of Being Earnest”, discovers that he is really called Ernest.

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Algernon, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, is Jack’s real brother?

Vero

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In “The Importance of Being Earnest” by whom was Jack accidentally abandoned?
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Is it true that the comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” was censored because it was judged to be immoral?

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What is the real meaning of Earnest?

Witty

Serious and sincere

False

It is just a person name

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