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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the family discuss at dinner which Brick missed?
(a) Admitting Brick to an alcoholic treatment center
(b) Big Daddy's new car
(c) Maggie's going to a fertility center
(d) Big Mama's new furniture

2. With which one of Brick's friends did Maggie make love?
(a) Chad
(b) Schooner
(c) Skipper
(d) Chip

3. How does Maggie enter the room in the first act?
(a) Purposefully
(b) Leisurely
(c) In a huff
(d) Tentatively

4. What is the location for the setting?
(a) Biloxi
(b) The countryside
(c) New Orleans
(d) The Pollitt plantation

5. For which character is the play named?
(a) Gooper
(b) Maggie
(c) Mae
(d) Brick

6. Who interrupts Brick and Maggie by pounding on the door?
(a) Mae
(b) A no-necked monster
(c) Big Mama
(d) Gooper

7. How are the two main characters related?
(a) They are best friends
(b) Brother and sister
(c) They are married
(d) They work together

8. How did Brick sustain his recent injury?
(a) Falling down steps
(b) Jumping hurdles
(c) Wrecking a car
(d) Riding a horse

9. What is Brick doing when Maggie is talking to him?
(a) Reading the paper
(b) Taking a shower
(c) Talking on the phone
(d) Trying to nap

10. What is Maggie's purpose for entering the room?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Change her dress
(c) Make a phone call
(d) Write in her diary

11. Who does Big Mama talk to on the phone about Big Daddy's diagnosis?
(a) Miss Sally
(b) Reverend Mitchell
(c) Mae
(d) Miss Ellie

12. Who is Mae?
(a) Gooper's ex-wife
(b) Maggie's sister
(c) Brick's sister
(d) Gooper's wife

13. Which one of Mae's children interrupts Brick and Maggie during their argument?
(a) James
(b) Mason
(c) Dixie
(d) Halle

14. According to Maggie, who sees Big Daddy's last birthday as a double cause for celebration?
(a) Brick
(b) Doc Bough
(c) Gooper and Mae
(d) Lacey

15. What does Maggie reassure Brick about?
(a) That his ankle will heal soon
(b) That their sex life will return
(c) That he will get another job
(d) That he will get the inheritance

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brick refuse to do that frustrates Maggie?

2. What does Maggie call herself?

3. What secret does the family intend to keep from Big Daddy?

4. How many acts are in this play?

5. Who interrupts Brick and Maggie as they argue?

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