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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What suggests to us that Biff has returned from a journey?
(a) Linda tells Willy she met the train.
(b) Biff's suitcase is in the hall.
(c) A partially unpacked suitcase is on Biff's bed.
(d) Linda mentions that Biff has "just got off [a] train."

2. What happens as Willy is driving on the highway?
(a) The car breaks down.
(b) He allows the car to veer over the white line.
(c) A woman yells at him.
(d) He runs off the road.

3. How long has it taken the Lomans to pay off their house?
(a) Thirty-five years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Thirty years
(d) Twenty-five years

4. When was J.P. Morgan very well liked, according to Charley?
(a) When he had his pockets on.
(b) When he visited the butcher.
(c) When he was in the turkish bath.
(d) When he built a railroad.

5. What does Linda think will happen in Biff's meeting with Bill Oliver?
(a) Biff will ask for ten or fifteen thousand dollars.
(b) Biff will return the goods he stole a few years ago.
(c) Biff will ask Bill Oliver for a steady job.
(d) Biff will ask for thirty thousand dollars.

6. Who does Happy say is his ideal girl?
(a) Someone like his mother
(b) Someone who is a good cook and a good typist
(c) Someone with financial experience
(d) Anyone he can look up to and who will help him get along

7. How does Willy refer to Howard?
(a) That snotnose
(b) That little toad
(c) That booby
(d) That asshole

8. What does Willy find frustrating about the appliances he has bought over the years?
(a) They wear out or break before he has fully paid for them.
(b) They are too expensive, badly designed and badly made.
(c) They have design faults.
(d) They are not made by American companies.

9. Where does Willy believe his company most needs him?
(a) In Florida
(b) In Yonkers
(c) In New York
(d) In New England

10. According to Willy, what has left him unsettled and "temporary?"
(a) He never had a chance to get close to his father.
(b) Worrying about the mortgage
(c) Not being happy with Linda
(d) The wanderings around the countryside when he was a child

11. Why does Willy call Charley "disgusting?"
(a) Because he always loses at cards.
(b) Because he smokes cigarettes.
(c) Because he insultsWilly by offering him a job.
(d) Because he cannot handle tools.

12. How did Ben and Willy's father support his family financially as they traveled?
(a) By selling agricultural machinery he had invented
(b) By working in bars
(c) By selling the flutes he had made
(d) By giving flute concerts in every town they visited

13. What reason does Biff give Linda for Willy throwing him out?
(a) Willy does not like Biff bringing girls home.
(b) Willy finds out Biff had been gambling.
(c) Willy is uncomfortable around people who know he is a fake.
(d) Biff has not paid enough board to his parents.

14. Where was Ben living when he died?
(a) Arkansas
(b) Alaska
(c) Africa
(d) Australia

15. When Linda says "You notice?", what is she referring to?
(a) The aroma of the Irish stew she made for dinner
(b) The new night dress she is wearing
(c) The smell of shaving lotion pervading the house
(d) That she has dyed her hair

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bill Oliver?

2. What metaphor about Willy does Linda use in her phone conversation with Biff?

3. What, in Willy's behavior, embarrasses Happy?

4. What change has Happy noticed in Biff?

5. What sort of debts do Willy and Linda have?

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