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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Pages 173-193.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worrying news does Bernard bring?
(a) He has heard that Mr Birnbaum is leaving the school.
(b) He has heard Mr Birnbaum threatening to flunk Biff in Math.
(c) He has heard that someone else has won the sports scholarship.
(d) Biff has failed Math.

2. What important admission does Willy make to Charley?
(a) That Charley is the only friend he has.
(b) That Happy is about to be married.
(c) That Biff discovered a secret in Boston.
(d) That he has stolen Howard's fountain pen.

3. To what does Bernard attribute Biff's lack of success after the age of seventeen?
(a) Bernard says people do not trust Biff to commit.
(b) Biff has never been well-liked.
(c) Biff has never trained himself for anything.
(d) Bernard simply has no idea.

4. What, in Willy's behavior, embarrasses Happy?
(a) Willy has been singing in the lift.
(b) Willy does not know the way to Florida.
(c) Willy has been talking to himself.
(d) Willy has been mocking Biff.

5. What offer of Charley's does Willy refuse?
(a) Fifty dollars per week for life
(b) A job where he will not have to go out on the road
(c) To intercede with Howard to give Willy his job back
(d) A supervisory job in Boston

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ben living when he died?

2. What difference would it have made to his life if Willy had formed his own business?

3. When was J.P. Morgan very well liked, according to Charley?

4. In what way does Willy contradict himself in this opening scene?

5. What does Howard say about his new wire recorder?

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