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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Big Daddy tell at the party?
(a) How he came to own the plantation
(b) About Brick's days as a football star
(c) How he met Big Mama
(d) About his illness and recovery

2. What changes Big Daddy's view on the question now?
(a) Maggie's pregnancy
(b) His disgust of Gooper and Mae
(c) His clean bill of health
(d) His hatred of Big Mama

3. In addition to all the Pollitts, who else is in attendance?
(a) Lacey and Ol' Joe
(b) Clayton Hall
(c) Jack Straw
(d) Doctor Baugh and Reverend Tooker

4. What is Reverend Tooker's topic of conversation?
(a) The work of the missions
(b) His sermon for next Sunday
(c) Recent donations to the church
(d) The sin of abortion

5. What did Brick do when a drunken Skipper had called him to confess his feelings?
(a) Quit his job
(b) Ended his marriage
(c) Slept with his wife
(d) Hung up on him

6. What is Big Daddy interested in now?
(a) Building on to the house
(b) Pleasure in the company of women
(c) Going fly fishing
(d) Traveling to Europe

7. According to Brick, the only other option for escape is ______________.
(a) Death
(b) Humiliation
(c) Drugs
(d) Divorce

8. Big Daddy bristles at the talk of ___________.
(a) Church
(b) Death
(c) No-neck monsters
(d) Taxes

9. What was Big Daddy's first job at the plantation?
(a) Brushing the horses
(b) Working in the fields
(c) Feeding the chickens
(d) Sweeping the house

10. Big Daddy says he is not about to release the plantation to whom?
(a) Gooper
(b) Big Mama
(c) Brick
(d) Ol' Joe

11. What role does Big Mama hold in the family?
(a) Business person
(b) Matriarch
(c) Religious conscience
(d) Cook

12. What are the allegations about Brick's early morning escapade?
(a) He was stoned
(b) He was with another woman
(c) He crashed his car
(d) He was looking for drugs

13. What other truth does Brick reveal to Big Daddy?
(a) Maggie cannot get pregnant
(b) Big Daddy is dying
(c) Maggie is divorcing Brick
(d) Maggie had a miscarriage

14. For what is one of the things Big Daddy has respect?
(a) Gooper
(b) Big Mama
(c) Maggie
(d) Brick

15. What is the setting of Act 2?
(a) A bedroom
(b) The veranda
(c) The kitchen
(d) A den

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Big Daddy's second job at the plantation?

2. Big Daddy tells Big Mama that she is no longer in charge of the plantation because ________________________.

3. Big Daddy admits that making love to Big Mama always ______________ him.

4. What does Big Daddy call Big Mama?

5. What does Big Daddy believe about Brick and Skipper's relationship?

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