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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After addressing Lenny's concern about not being able to sleep, who does Teddy ask Lenny about?
(a) Jessie
(b) Sam
(c) Max
(d) Joey

2. What does Max tell Lenny to stop?
(a) Complaining about his job.
(b) Calling him "Dad"
(c) Beating up on his brother
(d) Eating so much

3. Which character has been on stage all through the first scene of the play?
(a) Lenny
(b) Max
(c) Sam
(d) Joey

4. What does Ruth dare Lenny to do?
(a) Sit on her lap and take a sip from a glass.
(b) Tell her a secret.
(c) Wake everyone up.
(d) Kiss her.

5. What does Lenny say in response to Max's demand for an explanation of the noise that awoke him?
(a) Lenny tells Max that Sam turned up the radio.
(b) Lenny blames the noise on Joey and his friends.
(c) Lenny asks Max about the night he was conceived.
(d) Lenny asks Max to loan him some money.

6. How long does Teddy tell Lenny he will be staying?
(a) As long as he needs to
(b) A week
(c) Overnight
(d) A few days

7. What does Max say he could instinctively know?
(a) Whether or not an employer would hire him
(b) Whether or not a used car had been in an accident
(c) Whether or not a girl would go out with him
(d) Whether or not a female horse would go the distance

8. How is Joey related to Sam?
(a) Sam and Joey are cousins.
(b) Sam is Joey's father.
(c) Sam and Joey are brothers.
(d) Sam is Joey's uncle.

9. Who was Jessie?
(a) A former neighbor
(b) Max's wife
(c) Sam and Max's sister
(d) Lenny's wife

10. What does Max want Sam to do when Joey goes upstairs?
(a) Max wants Sam to go upstairs.
(b) Max wants Sam to drive him to the drugstore.
(c) Max wants Sam to eat dinner with him.
(d) Max wants Sam to agree with about his criticism of Joey.

11. When does Max say that Sam will be out of the house?
(a) When Max renovates the house
(b) When Max sells the property
(c) When Sam retires
(d) When Lenny gets married

12. At the end of the first scene, what does Max reveal about MacGregor?
(a) MacGregor was Max's father.
(b) MacGregor was Max's football coach.
(c) MacGregor lived next door until he died.
(d) MacGregor tried to steal the deed to the house.

13. Where does Ruth say she and Teddy have been vacationing?
(a) Australia
(b) America
(c) Italy
(d) England

14. What does Lenny want Max to tell him?
(a) Why he gets blamed for everything that happens
(b) Why no one would ever loan him any money
(c) If his parents were trying to have a baby or if his conception was an accident
(d) If he was going to inherit the house someday

15. What do Lenny and Max bicker about?
(a) Max's cooking
(b) Lenny's chores
(c) The leaking roof
(d) Paying for groceries

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Max taunt Joey?

2. What does Ruth call Lenny?

3. Who, instead of Max, does Lenny say he should have asked for an answer to a question that's been bothering him?

4. When he first appears in the play, Max enters the living room and is looking for a scissor for what reason?

5. After Sam reminds Max that he took Jessie out in a limo because he was taking care of her, what does Max call Sam?

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