The Non-Juror MCQs

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Author: Nasir Iqbal | Assistant Professor of English Literature


Updated on: November 26, 2025
Estimated Reading Time: 17 min

The Non-Juror MCQs

1. What primary factor causes Sir John to oppose Heartly’s addresses to Maria?

A. Low fortune
B. Youthful arrogance
C. Political principles
D. Family honour

C. Political principles.
Sir John objects because Heartly is a Time-server who basely flatters the Government.

2. What specific right does Sir John suggest a pastor must have to christen someone truly?

A. True belief
B. Apostolic mandate
C. Successive right
D. Lay hands

C. Successive right.
Sir John questions if Heartly was christened by a pastor with a Divine, Uninterrupted, Successive Right.

3. What location does the Colonel ask Heartly to leave, calling it a foul nest of heresy and schism?

A. Coffee house
B. Button’s Club
C. Button’s Coffee
D. St. James’s

A. Coffee house.
Sir John asks the Colonel if he will never leave that foul Nest of Heresy and Schism, Button’s.

4. What specific object did the Housemaid find stolen in the Doctor’s study?

A. Gold watch
B. Private money
C. Lady’s slipper
D. Love letter

C. Lady’s slipper.
The housemaid found one of Lady Woodvil’s slippers, which the love-sick Doctor had stolen as a private plaything.
5. Whose name does Doctor Wolf admit he sometimes omits from the family prayers?

A. Our Clergy
B. All Ministers
C. Royal Family
D. Good Colonel

C. Royal Family.
The Doctor omits the Prayer for the Royal Family, claiming it shortens the service for vain, idle souls.

6. What specific kind of game does the Colonel compare a Coquette’s play with a serious lover to?

A. Chess opening
B. Hide seek
C. Back game
D. Losing bet

C. Back game.
The Colonel likens a Coquette’s strategy with a serious lover to a Back game at Tables, which is all open at first.

7. What warning does Doctor Wolf give the Colonel, hinting that the government’s authority might eventually change?

A. Law alters
B. Time reveals
C. Power’s Hands
D. Justice sleeps

C. Power’s Hands.
The Doctor warns that Power perhaps may change its Hands, suggesting the current Government might fall.

8. In what foreign location does the Colonel’s acquaintance claim to have known the Doctor very well?

A. Italy Rome
B. Avignon France
C. In Flanders
D. London town

C. In Flanders.
The Colonel’s friend, a poor, unhappy Rebel in prison, assures him he knew the Doctor very well in Flanders.

9. What intimate activity was Maria doing with her face toward the door when the impudent Doctor burst in?

A. Writing letters
B. Dressing hair
C. Fastening Garter
D. Quiet reading

C. Fastening Garter.
Maria was sitting carelessly in her Dressing Room, fastening her Garter with her face just towards the door.
10. What large financial loss does the Colonel fear will happen to his father’s estate if his eyes are not opened?

A. Sold entirely
B. Lost fortune
C. Crown’s inheritance
D. Given enemies

C. Crown’s inheritance.
The Colonel fears the Crown is more likely to inherit the estate if his father continues to trust the villain.

11. What specific promise did Charles’s uncle give his father upon adopting Charles?

A. Good education
B. True faith
C. Be his heir
D. Provide money

C. Be his heir.
Charles was adopted by his uncle with the assurance of making him his Heir, which his poor father consented to.

12. What political event did Charles participate in that led him to artfully confirm his own death to his father?

A. Foreign war
B. Court treason
C. Late Rebellion
D. Secret plot

C. Late Rebellion.
Charles was ruined after participating in the Late Rebellion, where his uncle lost his life.

13. What malicious falsehood did the Doctor use to warm Charles into believing it was an incumbent duty to rebel?

A. King’s tyranny
B. People starve
C. Churches ruined
D. Estates forfeit

C. Churches ruined.
The Doctor assured them that half the churches were lying all in sacrilegious ruins.

14. What condition gave the Doctor a cold pretence to leave Preston upon the King’s forces marching?

A. Sudden illness
B. Faked injury
C. Friendly fever
D. Weak conscience

C. Friendly fever.
A friendly Fever seized the Doctor, giving him a pretence to leave Preston before the King’s forces arrived.
15. What object, dropped by Sir John, does the Colonel pick up and read to reveal the Doctor’s seditious secrets?

A. Sealed letter
B. Black book
C. A paper
D. Old pamphlet

C. A paper.
The Colonel finds the paper Sir John dropped, which contains a list of traitorous payments.

16. What activity were John Shoplift and Thomas Highway paid to perform, showing their treasonous intent?

A. Break windows
B. Start riot
C. Put out the Bonfire
D. Steal supplies

C. Put out a Bonfire.
They were paid for endeavouring to put out the Enemy’s Bonfire, revealing seditious activity.

17. What spiritual distinction does the express from Avignon promote Doctor Wolf to?

A. True Father
B. Chief Pastor
C. Vacant see
D. New Archbishop

C. Vacant see.
The express promotes Doctor Wolf (unworthy as he is) to the vacant See of Thetford.

18. What specific group of people does the Doctor praise for their constancy in supporting their Cause?

A. True friends
B. The men
C. The ladies
D. Loyal subjects

C. The ladies.
The Doctor notes that the ladies have supported their Cause with a surprising Constancy.

19. Who does the Doctor propose Sir John should first speak to Maria about marrying him?

A. Colonel brother
B. Attend father
C. Her stepmother
D. Lady Woodvil

D. Lady Woodvil.
The Doctor advises Sir John to ask Lady Woodvil to be his Friend to Maria first.
20. What insulting phrase does Doctor Wolf privately use to describe Maria’s giddy and vain character?

A. Senseless toy
B. Baby thing
C. Wanton thing
D. Vain creature

C. Wanton thing.
Doctor Wolf calls Maria a giddy wanton thing, not formed to make a wise Man happy.

21. What specific phrase in Greek does Maria recall hearing the Doctor say to Lady Woodvil?

A. Philia Eros
B. Alpha Omega
C. Zoe Psyehe
D. Agapa Pistis

C. Zoe Psyehe.
Maria remembers the Doctor saying, “Zoe, kai Psyehe,” which Charles translates as My Life, My Soul.

22. What specific personal quality does Maria insist Heartly prove before she shares her secret?

A. Your silence
B. Your love
C. Your Faith
D. Your patience

C. Your Faith.
Maria insists that trusting her word for a day is a fair test of your Faith.

23. What quality of love does Maria claim Heartly’s insistence on jealousy is proof of, which only slighted hearts value?

A. Real concern
B. Deep passion
C. Slighted hearts
D. Manly reason

C. Slighted hearts.
Maria says his jealousy is of that kind that only slighted Hearts are pleased with.

24. What immediate conclusion does Heartly draw about Maria when she leaves with Charles and the writing?

A. Plot revenge
B. Sold fortune
C. Found rival
D. Secret revealed

B. Sold fortune.
Heartly concludes Maria is lost and has sordidly sold herself to Fortune.
25. What action does the Colonel take immediately after Maria reveals Heartly is too serious for her?

A. Walks out
B. Stops mouth
C. Embraces him
D. Advises patience

B. Stops mouth.
The Colonel stops Heartly’s mouth, saying “Buz” and barring all Heroicks after Maria reveals hope.

26. What type of image does Maria say unlawful love peeping out from under a cloak would make?

A. Sinister picture
B. Ridiculous image
C. Divine Comedy
D. Holy mask

B. Ridiculous image.
Maria jokes that “unlawful Love peeping his sly Head out from under the Cloak of Sanctity” is a ridiculous Image.

27. What specific material on Lady Woodvil does the Doctor stroke while comparing it to human art?

A. Fine velvet
B. This silk
C. White lace
D. Soft hands

B. This silk.
The Doctor was admiring the Softness of this Silk, noting its gaudy Lustre came from a worm.

28. What did the Doctor claim Maria served as a cover for, shielding him from shrewd suspicion?

A. Evil intent
B. Real thoughts
C. Secret passion
D. Hidden fortune

B. Real thoughts.
Doctor Wolf claims Maria’s addresses were but a Feint, a Blind to screen his real Thoughts.

29. What claim does Sir John make to the Colonel after observing the Doctor’s seemingly virtuous behaviour toward Lady Woodvil?

A. You lied
B. I knew
C. You’re wrong
D. Leave the house

B. I knew.
Sir John whispers that Heartly’s eyes have deceived him, telling the Colonel, “all this I knew of”.
30. What quality does the Doctor display to Sir John, turning the Colonel’s accusation into an error of virtue?

A. Humble piety
B. Forced anger
C. Feigned goodness
D. True religion

A. Humble piety.
The Doctor displays a Miracle of Charity, asking Sir John to forgive his son’s error of Virtue.

31. What insulting term does Sir John use for the person represented by Maria’s fashionable “taste”?

A. Wicked wretch
B. Sensual ideot
C. Impertinent jade
D. Giddy devil

C. Impertinent jade.
Sir John calls the use of the word ‘Taste’ the most provoking, impertinent Jade alive.

32. What was Henry Conscience paid a large sum of money for doing for Sir Preston Rebel?

A. Silent witness
B. Acquitting Rebel
C. Falsified evidence
D. Juryman’s vote

B. Acquitting Rebel.
Henry Conscience, a juryman, was paid for his extraordinary Trouble in acquitting Sir Preston Rebel.

33. What specific part of Sir John’s estate is immediately given to Doctor Wolf in the unexecuted deed?

A. All lands
B. This house
C. All money
D. Maria’s dowry

B. This house.
The deed grants Doctor Wolf four hundred Pounds per Annum, of which this very House is Part.

34. What key element of their relationship does Heartly claim he cannot give up to Maria’s discretion?

A. My honour
B. His reason
C. His fortune
D. My pride

B. His reason.
Heartly insists that his honest, manly reason is not her slave, and he cannot bear her imperious air.
35. During what period of time does the Colonel suggest putting their design upon the Doctor into execution?

A. At midnight
B. Early morning
C. Takes a nap
D. During dinner

C. Takes a nap.
The Colonel says the proper time to proceed is while his Father takes his Nap after Dinner.

36. What tragic romantic story does the Doctor claim he was meditating upon before Lady Woodvil arrived?

A. Roman tragedy
B. Eloisa’s Passion
C. Saint’s story
D. Biblical verse

B. Eloisa’s Passion.
The Doctor claims he had just dipped into poor Eloisa’s Passion for Abelard, finding it a piteous conflict.

37. What action does Sir John take immediately after realising the Doctor claims ownership of the house?

A. Curses wife
B. Stands musing
C. Calls police
D. Seizes weapon

B. Stands musing.
Sir John is astonished at the Doctor’s claim of being Master, then stands musing and lost in wild astonishment.

38. What statement does the Doctor make to Sir John, immediately after the confrontation, regarding his ownership?

A. My claim
B. Master here
C. Will sue
D. Leave now

B. Master here.
The Doctor boldly claims, “I am Master here, turn you out, Sir, this House is Mine”.

39. What crime does the Doctor threaten to charge Sir John with, related to sheltering Charles?

A. High treason
B. Conceal Rebel
C. Minor theft
D. False witness

B. Conceal Rebel.
The Doctor argues that to conceal a Rebel is an equal Act of Treason against Sir John.
40. What law does the Colonel claim proves the Doctor is a lurking emissary of Rome?

A. Old records
B. Affidavits orders
C. Public knowledge
D. Secret document

B. Affidavits orders.
The Colonel has Affidavits that prove the Doctor is actually a Priest in Popish Orders.

41. What specific term does the Doctor use to gild gross Popish doctrines for Sir John to swallow down the poison?

A. New doctrine
B. Ancient faith
C. English Catholic
D. True Christian

C. English Catholic.
The Doctor uses the Style of English Catholic to make Sir John swallow down the Poison of Popish doctrines.

42. Where does Lady Woodvil instruct Sir John to stand to lurk and watch the Doctor’s behaviour?

A. Next room
B. Under the table
C. Behind the screen
D. By window

B. Under table.
Lady Woodvil instructs Sir John to stand under This Table, where the Carpet will conceal him.

43. What financial payment does the Doctor demand Heartly be ready and punctual with for his consent?

A. Full amount
B. Secret fee
C. The Proemium
D. Marriage license

C. The Proemium.
The Doctor wants Heartly to be ready and punctual with the Proemium, which is the two thousand pounds.

44. What fraction of the four thousand pounds does the Doctor insist on receiving for giving his consent to Heartly?

A. Full amount
B. Quarter sum
C. One-half
D. Small fee

C. One half.
The Doctor demands Half (Two Thousand pounds) of the four thousand pound charge for his consent.
45. Who were the two key figures who successfully represented Charles’s case at Court and obtained his pardon?

A. Maria’s influence
B. Father’s plea
C. Heartly Colonel
D. Lady’s word

C. Heartly Colonel.
The Colonel and Mr. Heartly generously represented Charles at Court, obtaining an order for his Pardon.

46. What action does the Doctor take immediately after realising Maria successfully swapped the deed?

A. Runs away
B. Writing in rage
C. Threatens her
D. Begs pardon

B. Writing in rage.
Realising he was deceived, the Doctor throws down the Writing in Rage, calling Maria a Brainless Girl.

47. Whose name does Maria reveal is written throughout the deed that Sir John unknowingly signed?

A. Doctor Wolf’s
B. Maria’s name
C. My brother’s
D. Heartly’s name

C. My brother’s.
Maria reveals that Heartly’s rival is his Brother, whose name is written throughout the false Deed.

48. What fault of Heartly’s is Maria attempting to fix by delaying her kindness and seeking a rival?

A. Too rash
B. Too jealous
C. Too poor
D. Too shy

B. Too jealous.
Maria confesses she wants to cure Heartly’s jealousy, believing a substantial rival can mend his faults.

49. What specific document does Charles obtain from the Doctor’s study to reveal the plot against the family?

A. Letter Avignon
B. Family will
C. Secret deed
D. Doctor’s accounts

C. Secret deed.
Charles obtains the Deed of Settlement, which the Doctor intends to have signed that evening.
50. What political concept does Heartly argue is a blessing equal to what a nation needs to guard?

A. True Monarchy
B. Good laws
C. Our Liberty
D. King George

C. Our Liberty.
Heartly argues that no Change of Government can give us a Blessing equal to our Liberty.

Brief Overview

The Non-Juror is a satirical comedy by Colley Cibber. It was first performed in 1717 and published in 1718. The play functions as a sharp political and religious satire, focused on loyalty, hypocrisy, and morality in early 18th-century Britain.

The play centers on Sir John Woodvil, who opposes his daughter Maria’s marriage to Mr Heartly. Sir John dislikes Heartly’s principles and loyalty to the current Hanoverian government, calling him a “Time-server.” Instead, Sir John wants Maria to marry Doctor Wolf.

Doctor Wolf is a “vile nonjuring Zealot” who lost his religious post for refusing oaths to the government. He is secretly a spy for a rival court abroad and an Emissary of Rome. The Doctor’s false piety entirely misleads Sir John.

Maria, who is witty and a “Coquette,” vows she will not marry the Doctor. The Doctor uses his influence to persuade Sir John to disinherit his son, the Colonel, and settle his entire estate on the Doctor.

The Colonel and Heartly believe the Doctor is a traitor and conspire to expose him. The Doctor is also secretly in love with Lady Woodvil, Sir John’s wife. Lady Woodvil sets a trap, letting the Doctor declare his “Odious Love” to her while Sir John secretly listens under a table.

Maria, with the help of the Doctor’s servant, Charles, tricks Sir John into signing a fake deed. This deed makes the Colonel, not the Doctor, his rightful heir. The Doctor’s treachery is fully exposed when his contact is seized and admits the Doctor was “actually in Arms” during a rebellion.

The Doctor is arrested for High Treason. Sir John realizes his errors, blesses the marriage of Heartly and Maria, and makes the Colonel his true heir.

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