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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linda think is best?
(a) For Biff to leave
(b) For Happy to clear away the garden tools
(c) For Willy to have supper
(d) For Happy to leave

2. What does Biff notice when he is in Bill Oliver's office?
(a) That it has paneled walls.
(b) That there is a mahogany desk with a fountain pen lying on the blotter.
(c) That there is a wire recorder on the desk.
(d) That there are fine pictures, a dado rail and Huon pine paneling.

3. Biff speaking to whom when he says "'I know who I am, kid."
(a) Bernard
(b) Linda
(c) Charley
(d) Happy

4. Which character is excited about jury duty?
(a) Biff
(b) Linda
(c) Jenny
(d) Letta

5. How does Happy explain Biff's behavior in leaving the restaurant?
(a) "He's been under a lot of pressure lately."
(b) "He's just a little overstrung."
(c) "He has to catch a train in the morning."
(d) "He's having a breakdown."

6. What is Happy's version of the great dream?
(a) To come out number-one man
(b) To be merchandise manager
(c) To buy a condo in Florida
(d) To buy a ranch and build guest houses on it

7. Which is the first of several lies Happy tells Miss Forsythe?
(a) That he is a famous footballer
(b) That he sells silk stockings
(c) That he is a champagne salesman
(d) That Biff is a famous footballer

8. Why won't Willy shake hands with Biff?
(a) He thinks Biff is the scum of the earth.
(b) His hands are dirty from gardening.
(c) He is angry that he didn't get any dinner at the restaurant.
(d) He thinks Biff is trying to spite him and is angry.

9. Biff reveals __________________ when he says, "I know who I am, kid."
(a) hat he has just recovered from amnesia
(b) that he has matured, experienced an insight
(c) that he has an agreeable personality
(d) that he has a bad habit of talking down to other people

10. How has Biff passed Math in the past?
(a) Through cheating, Bernard giving him the answers.
(b) Through practicing with Bernard
(c) By having his work re-marked
(d) Through studying hard

11. What distance does Willy measure between the rows?
(a) One foot
(b) One chain
(c) One inch
(d) One meter

12. What sound can be heard behind Linda's last speech?
(a) Verdi's Requiem
(b) Mozart's Requiem
(c) A flute
(d) A harmonica.

13. What uncomfortable truth does Biff expose?
(a) That Willy has been fired.
(b) That no one in the house tells the truth.
(c) That Happy is gay.
(d) That Willy is having an affair.

14. Who does Happy dismiss as "just a guy?"
(a) Willy
(b) Biff
(c) Stanley
(d) Charley

15. What is the guaranteed proposition Willy refers to as he "speaks" to Ben?
(a) The payout on Willy's life insurance
(b) The value of the mortgage
(c) The payout on Ben's life insurance
(d) His superannuation payout

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mentions that the cemetery gates will soon be closing?

2. What size stockings does the woman demand?

3. What is Charley's response when Linda asks him to go on ahead?

4. What are the types of seeds Willy is planting?

5. What does Biff suggest is the reason for his reluctance to have called on Oliver in the first place?

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