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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes in while Mark is putting away Brian's medications?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Interviewer.
(c) Beverly.
(d) Steve.

2. What caused Maggie and Steve to come to see Joe?
(a) The hospital insisted that they come immediately.
(b) He begged them to come and visit.
(c) They insisted that they had to come one last time.
(d) He no longer has the option to go home.

3. Why did Joe discourage his wife from coming to see him more often?
(a) He didn't feel like company because he was depressed.
(b) He always thought he'd go home.
(c) He was too proud to let her see him ill.
(d) He was ashamed of how he became ill.

4. Why was Joe released from the hospital?
(a) Because there was nothing else they could do for him.
(b) To keep others from catching his illness.
(c) To spend time with his family.
(d) To be able to keep track of his progress more carefully.

5. What draws Joe's attention to the interview area?
(a) A man calls him over.
(b) The loud crying of a woman.
(c) A light suddenly comes on.
(d) The sound of recorded voices.

6. Which of the following is the best synonym for the term affable?
(a) Unwilling.
(b) Sociable.
(c) Likable.
(d) Generous.

7. Where does Felicity think she is sometimes?
(a) Back in her own home.
(b) Up in heaven with God.
(c) In her daughter's home.
(d) Back in her regular hospital room.

8. What does Steve do to express how much he missed Joe?
(a) He hugs him several times.
(b) He gives him a letter he wrote.
(c) He has written Joe a poem.
(d) He tells him.

9. Why does Brian think Beverly has not returned to him?
(a) Because he is dying.
(b) Because he laughs at life and death.
(c) Because he continues to write.
(d) Because she is happy.

10. What does Joe believe his illness has made him more of?
(a) A man with no hope.
(b) An object rather than a person.
(c) A person devoid of feelings.
(d) An emotionally withdrawn person.

11. Which of the following is the best definition of what it means to be socially taboo?
(a) Only outcasts would consider the topic.
(b) The topic is easily discussed in society.
(c) There are laws against talking about the topic.
(d) Not often discussed or talked about.

12. In what year did this play win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.

13. Which f the following is an accurate definition of the term shadow box?
(a) A shallow box that puts objects on display.
(b) A tall narrow box used to encase pictures safely.
(c) A creation that replicates another scene.
(d) A box that takes the light and refracts it to cause shadows.

14. Why did Brian's ex-wife leave him?
(a) He spent all of his time writing and not paying attention to her.
(b) He would write about her and reveal her secrets to others.
(c) He would always seem sad or irrate when he was writing.
(d) He wanted to write and talk instead of living life to its fullest.

15. What does Brian believe people are doing instead of living more authentic lives?
(a) Denying the facts that are presented to them.
(b) Moving through their lives in an automatic way.
(c) Trying methods to prolong the inevitable.
(d) Praying to a God he does not believe exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe tell the interviewer was his first reaction to learning about his terminal condition?

2. What ends the tension between Beverly and Mark?

3. What does Maggie talk to Joe about at first?

4. What is Brian doing all of the time that he is unsure of the cause of?

5. How does Joe react to what Maggie has done to Steve?

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