Try to identify the word used by GB Shaw, at the blanks below.
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1. Adopting a child, does not provide the ___ experience of bearing the child.: a) sublime b) soulful c) supreme d) speckless .
2. An illicit union is often found in practice to be as ___ and as hard to escape from, as the worst legal one. a) futile b) tyrannical c) blissful d) hypocritical .
3. A Sultan may have fifty ___ as easily as he may have fifty dishes on his table, because in the English sense he has no wives at all. a) concubines b) lovers c) mistresses d) wives .
4. (Can- reflects the ability of somebody to do something. May- reflects a 50% probability. Ought to - suggests a moral duty. Must - indicates a compulsion.) Modal verb selected by Shaw in the Preface to Getting Married, in the sentence "Now most laws are, and all laws ___ be, stronger than the strongest individual.": a) can b) may c) ought to d) must be .
5. Civilly married couples are received in society, by Catholics and everyone else, as ___ married couples. : a) civilly b) sacramentally c) ceremonially d) abnormally .
6. However much we may all suffer through marriage, most of us think so little about it that we regard it as a fixed part of the order of nature, like ___. : a) flooding b) gravitation c) volcanic eruption d) old age .
7. I know one lady who has been married five times. She is, as might be expected, a ___, attractive, and interesting woman.: a) experimentative b) fickle c) pertinacious d) wise .
8. In this morality, female adultery is ___. a) malversation b) misconduct c) corruption d) evil conduct .
9. Marriage is enforced by public opinion with ___. : a) felicity b) ferocity c) febricity d) unanimity .
10. Marriage remains practically ___ ; and the sooner we acknowledge this, the sooner we shall set to work to make it decent and reasonable.: a) avoidable b) felicitious c) facile d) inevitable .
11. Our relief at the morality of the reassurance that man is not promiscuous in his fancies must not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a ___.: a) philander b) unrestrained c) Varietist d) womanizer .
12. Promiscuity is a product of a) permissiveness b) liberty c) slavery d) lewdness .
13. The mere mention of the marriage question makes a British Cabinet ___ with apprehension and hastily pass on to safer business. a) quiver b) shiver c) waver d) swing .
14. The number of wives permitted to a single husband or of husbands to a single wife under a marriage system, is not an ___ problem a) ethical b) demographic c) emotional d) ethnographical .
15. Title of Shaw's "Preface to Getting Married" was ___ against marriage. a) revolt b) revolution c) insurrection d) rebellion .
16. We may dismiss from the field of practical politics the extreme ___ view of marriage as a sacred and indissoluble covenant.: a) priestly b) ecceliastical c) sacerdotal d) hieratic .
17. Women, left to themselves, would tolerate ___ .: a) monogamy b) polygyny c) polyandry d) none .
18. When it comes to “conduct rendering life burdensome,” it is clear that no marriage is any longer ___. a) dissoluble b) burdenless c) burdensome d) indissoluble .
19. We must finally adapt our institutions to human ___.: a) aspirations b) convictions c) nature d) welfare. .
20. Make it impossible for marriage to be used as a ___ as it is at present.: a) gift b) legacy c) punishment d) contract .
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