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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. How many acts are in this play?
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 8

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

3. What advantage does Maggie think that Gooper and Mae have in the inheritance?
(a) They have strong investment skills
(b) They go to church regularly
(c) They have several children
(d) They are the oldest

4. What does Brick advise Maggie to do?
(a) Take a lover
(b) Help with dinner
(c) Take a cold shower
(d) Get him another drink

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mae arranged for tonight's event?

2. Where does the family live?

3. What is Maggie's purpose for entering the room?

4. What does Maggie reassure Brick about?

5. What physical injury has Brick recently sustained?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maggie say to Brick after everyone else has left their room?

2. How has Maggie fulfilled her role as a cat on a hot tin roof?

3. Who are the two main characters in the play?

4. How does Brick respond to Maggie's claims of loneliness?

5. Who are Gooper and Mae?

6. What are Big Daddy's current thoughts about who to leave the plantation to when he dies?

7. Where does Big Mama think Big Daddy is?

8. What is the premise and the setting for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

9. Why has the subject of the inheritance risen in importance?

10. What medicinal precautions does Doctor Baugh take before leaving the Pollitt home?

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