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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. What is Paulina holding when the audience first sees her in the scene?
(a) The morning newspaper.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) Breakfast for Roberto.

2. What does Gerardo call their argument?
(a) An absurd discussion.
(b) They are not arguing.
(c) A prelude to love.
(d) Verbal abuse.

3. Where is Paulina's mother going?
(a) To the opera.
(b) To Canada.
(c) Traveling South.
(d) To Buenos Aires.

4. What is hidden in the drawer?
(a) A gun.
(b) A thousand dollars.
(c) A ledger book.
(d) A pocketknife.

5. What does Paulina say there is none of in the house?
(a) Mustard.
(b) Mayonnaise.
(c) Pickles.
(d) Ham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the commission?

2. What would be an adjective that might describe Paulina's actions at this point?

3. What does Gerardo say his wife fails to do?

4. What happens to Gerardo's car?

5. When will Paulina remove Roberto's gag?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of position has Gerardo been offered and what does he say about it?

2. How and when was Paulina arrested and what was she too afraid to do?

3. When and under what circumstances did Paulina meet Dr. Miranda?

4. What is Gerardo going to tell Paulina about what he thinks Roberto is going to do?

5. What does Paulina do after she locks her husband in their room?

6. How does the play, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, open?

7. What does Gerardo say when Paulina asks who was in the car?

8. What do Gerardo and Paulina do when the music ends?

9. What does Paulina say about Schubert to Roberto?

10. What does Roberto see when he awakes?

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