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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the professor suggest they begin with in The Lesson?
(a) Music.
(b) Geography.
(c) Biology.
(d) Arithmetic.

2. What does the maid say that philology leads to in The Lesson?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Calamity.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Hilarity.

3. What does the professor say of the weather in The Lesson?
(a) It's snowing.
(b) It is foggy and gray.
(c) It is raining.
(d) It's not raining and not snowing either.

4. Who did the Smiths' maid go to the cinema with in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her niece.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) A man.

5. When did Mr. Martin leave his hometown in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Five days ago.
(b) Five weeks ago.
(c) Five months ago.
(d) Five years ago.

6. Who is the Rumanian grocer that Mrs. Parker knows in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Arlando Ignesonov.
(b) Popesco Rosenfield.
(c) Andreas Gordovsky.
(d) Micheal Romanov.

7. Who died three years ago, according to Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Mrs. Wilson.
(b) Bobby Watson.
(c) Sarah Jane Winslow.
(d) The Danbury boy.

8. What, according to the professor, are so closely related as to be true second cousins?
(a) Spanish and French.
(b) French and Latin.
(c) Neo-Spanish languages.
(d) Romantic languages.

9. What story does Mrs. Smith tell in The Bald Soprano?
(a) "The Dog and the Cow."
(b) "The Mad Hatter."
(c) "The Snake and the Fox."
(d) "The Bouquet."

10. When did Mrs. Martin leave her hometown in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Five weeks ago.
(b) Five months ago.
(c) Five years ago.
(d) Five days ago.

11. The professor states that if you utter several sounds at an accelerated speed, they will do what?
(a) Be inarticulate.
(b) Become inaudible.
(c) Cling to each other.
(d) Become slurred.

12. What does Mrs. Smith claim a fireman is also in The Bald Soprano?
(a) A confessor.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A newsman.
(d) A savior.

13. How old is the professor in The Lesson?
(a) 50-60.
(b) 70-75.
(c) 60-70.
(d) 40-50.

14. In The Bald Soprano, who tells the audience, "My real name is Sherlock Holmes"?
(a) Mrs. Smith.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Helen.
(d) Mary.

15. How long has the professor lived in this town in The Lesson?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 30 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diplomas does the pupil have in The Lesson?

2. The pupil asks the Professor, "are all the roots of words ____?"

3. The Smiths were given seven silver what for their wedding in The Bald Soprano?

4. Who is darning socks in the opening scene of The Bald Soprano?

5. In The Bald Soprano, who says, "you are both partly right. When the doorbell rings, sometimes there is someone, other times there is no one"?

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