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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 Alice reveal about her evening?
(a) She is working late.
(b) She is going to a movie with friends.
(c) She is going out on a date with Tony Kirby.
(d) She is going to a concert.

2. How does Alice feel about her family?
(a) She loves them but is willing to leave them to be with Tony.
(b) She loves them too much to ever cut them out of her life.
(c) She is annoyed with their strange behavior and wants nothing to do with them.
(d) She loves them and wants them to accept Tony.

3. What does Tony's comment about family dynamics foreshadow?
(a) The easiness in which his family operates.
(b) His harsh and difficult family.
(c) His lack of a family.
(d) His loving, yet odd family.

4. What does Tony ask Alice to do?
(a) Remember him.
(b) Pack her things.
(c) Have a nice life.
(d) Meet him before work in the morning.

5. Why does Alice relent?
(a) She loves and trusts Tony.
(b) Tony is very convincing.
(c) She does not have the willpower to argue.
(d) She wants their relationship to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patriarch of this zany family?

2. Where do Alice and Tony go on a date?

3. What does Tony remind Alice?

4. From where does Penny's daughter arrive?

5. Why does Rheba enter the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Essie Carmichael? What is she doing in this scene? How does she fit seamlessly into the Sycamore family?

2. What strangers arrive after the Kirbys? Why?

3. What unexpected event takes place? How does all the activity prior to this event add to the shock and humor of this event?

4. What does Rheba recall? How does this information satisfy the audience?

5. Is Tony able to change Alice's mind? To what does Alice agree? Why does she change her mind?

6. What is Grandpa's philosophy on life? How does this relate to the title of the play?

7. What does this scenario about Alice's love for her unique family mirror?

8. Describe Grandpa Vanderhof. From where is he returning? What does he enjoy about this activity?

9. What does Alice's father do when she comes into the room? Why does he do this?

10. What does the doorbell announce? What might the audience members be thinking, before it is discovered who has rung the doorbell?

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