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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through Babe's confession she discovers:
(a) She wants to protect herself from scandal.
(b) She is angry with granddaddy.
(c) She wants to live.
(d) She does not love Zackery.

2. Lenny appears to be jealous about:
(a) Doc's interest in Meg.
(b) Doc's new baby.
(c) Doc's attention to Chick.
(d) Doc's new wife.

3. Meg explains their mother's suicide by telling Babe:
(a) Their father was responsible for her death.
(b) Their mother had a real bad day.
(c) They are all better off now.
(d) Their mother was temporarily insane.

4. Meg believes Lenny is shy with men because:
(a) She doesn't trust them since their Daddy left.
(b) She was never allowed to speak to them.
(c) She has had her heart broken.
(d) She is ashamed of her shrunken ovary.

5. When the girls argue about the lawyer, the mood becomes:
(a) Reflective and sober.
(b) Angry and violent.
(c) Joyous and celebratory.
(d) Angry and confrontational.

6. Meg and Lenny's relationship appears at first to be:
(a) Friendly.
(b) Violent.
(c) Tentative.
(d) Distant and cold.

7. Doc's gift to Lenny is:
(a) A sack of pecans.
(b) A sack of walnuts.
(c) A sack of almonds.
(d) A sack of peanuts.

8. Doc has come by to tell Lenny:
(a) Billy Boy has run away.
(b) Billy Boy was struck by a car.
(c) Billy Boy has died of old age.
(d) Billy Boy was struck by lightning.

9. Chick's attitude toward Meg reveals:
(a) She is jealous of Meg's lifestyle.
(b) Their relationship is strained and confrontational.
(c) Their relationship will be mended over the course of the play.
(d) She is secretly happy to have Meg back.

10. When Meg objects to Barnette, Lenny claims:
(a) Barnette is the best lawyer in town.
(b) No one could defeat Zackery in court.
(c) Meg should have found a better lawyer.
(d) Too much responsibilty has fallen on her.

11. Babe seems to blame their mother's death on:
(a) Their father's abandonment.
(b) The pressures of being a single mother.
(c) The cat's misbehavior.
(d) Society's judgement of women.

12. Barnette plans to win the case by arguing:
(a) Guilty by reason of insanity.
(b) Murder in the first degree.
(c) Self-defense or not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
(d) Self-defense or guilty of manslaughter.

13. Babe will not talk to Barnette Lloyd because:
(a) She wants to go to jail.
(b) She does not believe he can properly defend her.
(c) She is protecting her teenage lover.
(d) She is ashamed of herself for shooting Zackery.

14. Billy Boy was:
(a) Lenny's horse.
(b) Lenny's pen pal.
(c) Lenny's first love.
(d) Lenny's son.

15. Through the dialog, it becomes apparent that Zackery Botrelle:
(a) Was emotionally and physically abusive of his wife.
(b) Felt unloved by his wife.
(c) Tried to make his marriage work.
(d) Ignored his wife, which drove her to the affair with Willy Jay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lenny's solo celebration suggests:

2. During the argument Lenny reveals:

3. While Babe muses about the birthday cake she has ordered for Lenny, Meg:

4. The nylon wrapper and hair ball Chick leaves on the floor suggests:

5. Chick's continual focus on the shame their mother's suicide brought on the family suggests:

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