Read the excerpt from Act III of The Importance of Being Earnest.Chasuble. [Looking rather puzzled, and pointing to Jack and Algernon.] Both these gentlemen have expressed a desire for immediate baptism.Lady Bracknell. At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. I will not hear of such excesses. Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased if he learned that that was the way in which you wasted your time and money.
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They demonstrate the importance of manners.B
They illustrate a strict adherence to social rules.C
They stress the necessity of being a “gentleman.”D
They express the value of education over religion.