Act Three

I. Fill in the blanks using active vocabulary.

1. Cecily: Why did you … to be my guardian’s brother?

Algernon: In order that I might have an … of meeting you.

Cecily: I am more than … with what Mr. Moncrieff said. His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.

2. Lady Bracknell asked Jack if Cecily Cardew had any little …. Jack said that she had about a hundred and thirty thousand pounds in the Funds. Now Miss Cardew seemed a most … young lady to Lady Bracknell. And Lady Bracknell gave her … (to Algernon’s engagement).

3. Jack doesn’t approve … Algernon’s moral …. He suspects him of being untruthful.

4. Jack: This engagement is quite out of … …. I am Miss Cardew’s guardian, and she cannot marry without my … until she comes of …. (And) according to the terms of the late Mr. Cardew’s … Miss Cardew does not come legally of … till she is thirty-five.

5. Twenty-eight years ago Miss Prism left Lord Bracknell’s house … … … a perambulator that contained a baby. Miss Prism also had an old handbag in which she had intended to place the manuscript of a work of … that she had written.

6. Jack: Is this the handbag, Miss Prism? … it carefully before you speak. The happiness of more than one life … … your answer.

7.Being the eldest son he was christened … his father.

II. Fill in the blanks.

1. The fact that they did not follow us at once seems to me to show that they have some … of shame left.

2. Algernon (to Cecily): Darling! (They fall into each other’s ….)

3. When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune. But I never dreamed of allowing that to stand … my way.

4. I am not … myself, but I like punctuality in others.

5. I will not hear of such excess. Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased if he learned that that was the way in which you … your time and money.

6. Jack: You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your life.

Algernon: I did my best (today) though I was … of practice.

7. Algernon and his father were never on speaking …. His father died before Algernon was a year old.

III. Match a word in “A” with its equivalent in “B”.