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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Will come in and share with Grace and Elma?
(a) Telephone lines are down.
(b) Road workers are coming for coffee and food.
(c) There was an accident on Virgil's ranch.
(d) The bus is not coming.

2. What does Bo say he is unaccustomed to?
(a) A woman turning him down.
(b) Food as bad as this is.
(c) So many people talking at once.
(d) The cold weather.

3. What appears to be the relationship between Will and Carl?
(a) Old friends.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Relations.
(d) Strangers.

4. What does Dr. Lyman confess he has a hard time doing?
(a) Remembering things.
(b) Traveling by food.
(c) Living without alcohol.
(d) Keeping a job.

5. Which of the following characters is the driver of the bus?
(a) Carl.
(b) Grace.
(c) Bo.
(d) Gerald.

6. In what state does this play take place?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Missouri.

7. Why does Elma say that Will is good at taking care of people?
(a) He is a religious man.
(b) He is a counselor.
(c) He has previously been married.
(d) He was a rancher previously.

8. Which of the following is an accurate description of Elma?
(a) Good student.
(b) Married to a man who wanders.
(c) Carries a large straw suitcase.
(d) Has a southern accent.

9. Who does Carl flirt with?
(a) Elma.
(b) Grace.
(c) Wilma.
(d) Cherie.

10. Which character is about twenty-years-old and female?
(a) Wilma.
(b) Grace.
(c) Cherie.
(d) Elma.

11. Where does Carl say he is going?
(a) To Grace's apartment.
(b) To wait on the bus.
(c) For a walk.
(d) To the movies.

12. What does Will tell Bo that infuriates him?
(a) Cherie is staying at the restaurant.
(b) Cherie said she was kidnapped.
(c) Cherie doesn't love him.
(d) Cherie is in love with Will.

13. How does Bo react to what Will is saying?
(a) He tries to soothe him.
(b) He storms out of the restaurant.
(c) He argues.
(d) He concedes.

14. Why do Grace and Elma believe the restaurant will have to stay open late?
(a) Business of the restaurant.
(b) Blizzard.
(c) Lateness of the bus.
(d) Ice storm.

15. Which of the following characters is tall, thin, in his early 20s, and unkempt?
(a) Cherie.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Bo.
(d) Dr. Lyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervenes between Bo and Will to keep the peace?

2. Which of the following characters is a young rancher and cowboy?

3. Which of the following is the best adjective to describe the restaurant in this play?

4. Why won't the bus be able to travel?

5. What month is it when Act I opens?

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