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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who questions Mary again about her story?
(a) Professor Cardinal.
(b) Mrs. Munn.
(c) Mr. Savoy.
(d) Dr. Cardin.

2. What does Dr. Cardin plan for Martha?
(a) Get her established at Harvard.
(b) Send her to London with Mrs. Mortar.
(c) Take her to Vienna with Karen and him.
(d) Send her on a worldwide cruise.

3. What is the setting for Act 3?
(a) The Dover School.
(b) The Wright-Dobie School.
(c) The Glendale Academy.
(d) The Exeter School.

4. Why does Mary blackmail Rosalie?
(a) She doesn't know any better.
(b) She needs allies.
(c) To get Rosalie in trouble.
(d) Mrs. Mortar told her to.

5. Why do Karen and Martha want to talk to Mrs. Tilford?
(a) They would like her support in the next election.
(b) They want to confirm her grant to the school for next year.
(c) They are enlisting her help to organize a bake sale.
(d) She has encouraged all the parents to remove their daughters from the school.

6. Which of the following does Mrs. Tilford not offer to Karen?
(a) Financial retribution.
(b) A reversal of the legal judgment.
(c) Payment of Martha's funeral expenses.
(d) A formal public apology.

7. Who arrives unexpectedly at the school?
(a) Mrs. Munn.
(b) Mrs. Mortar.
(c) Professor Cardinal.
(d) Mr. Tilford.

8. What is the literary technique used when Martha begins to examine her feelings for Karen after Mary's accusations surface?
(a) Irony.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

9. How does Martha feel now about Mrs. Mortar?
(a) She is indifferent toward her.
(b) She loves her.
(c) She can tolerate her.
(d) She hates her.

10. What is the demeanor of Karen and Martha?
(a) Low key.
(b) Jubilant.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Defeated.

11. Whose bracelet will Mary claim that Rosalie stole?
(a) Sara MacKenzie's.
(b) Annette Hall's.
(c) Helen Burton's.
(d) Amy Donaldson's.

12. In what room does Act 3 begin?
(a) The music room.
(b) The Home Economics room
(c) The study room.
(d) The library.

13. With what theme does the author end the play?
(a) Love.
(b) Loss.
(c) Hopefulness.
(d) Betrayal.

14. How does Martha kill herself?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) Slits her wrists.
(d) Takes pills.

15. Karen and Martha find it hard to ______________________.
(a) concentrate.
(b) sleep.
(c) think about a different kind of life.
(d) eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who emerges as the strongest character at the end of the play?

2. Most people tend to destroy something __________________.

3. It is safe to say that Mary ______________________.

4. What is Agatha doing as Act 2, Scene 2 begins?

5. What do Karen and Martha know about their careers now?

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