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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim think is a waste of time?
(a) Work.
(b) Mourning.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Life.

2. How does Jim first appear in the third scene of Act 1?
(a) He is on the floor.
(b) He is missing.
(c) He is asleep.
(d) He is sitting up.

3. In the beginning of the play, what is critical to Jim's condition?
(a) The previous 24 hours.
(b) The next 48 hours.
(c) The next week.
(d) The next 72 hours.

4. What do patients reveal in a semi-conscious state, according to the doctor?
(a) The people they care about the most.
(b) Their true motives.
(c) Their reason for living.
(d) The people they dislike the most.

5. What does the doctor ask Jim when he first wakes up?
(a) The reason for his professional setbacks.
(b) His motives for separating with Ann.
(c) His motives for suicide.
(d) The reason for the type of pills he chose.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jim appear as Act 2 begins?

2. How did Jim get the pills to take?

3. How does Jim describe suicide to Dr. Bellman?

4. Where does Act 2 open?

5. What does Ann accept from Miss Cardell while she waits with Jim in the second scene of Act 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the important discovery Jim makes about Ann at the end of Act 1?

2. What is interesting about the doctors' ability to assess Jim at this point in the play?

3. What is Jim's mood like at the start of Act 1, Scene 5, and what does he learn about the convalescent ward?

4. What is ironic about the way the play ends and what message was the author trying to deliver?

5. Who is Tom and what is the purpose for his visit in Act 3, Scene 3?

6. How does the conversation between Ann and Dr. Schlesinger have a negative effect on Jim's chances to leave the hospital, and what are Ann's possible motives for her opinion?

7. When does Act 3, Scene 2 take place and who is meeting at the beginning of the scene?

8. What suggestion does Dr. Barrow make to Ann and why?

9. What is Jim's outburst and how is it symbolic?

10. What is interesting about the things that Jim tells Dr. Bellman about Ann, and what he will not tell him about Charlotte?

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