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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Happy's intent for the future?
(a) To be a traveling salesman
(b) To carry on the same fight as his father
(c) To have a great apartment and lots of girlfriends
(d) To have a different drea

2. According to Linda, what extra expense had Willy also paid?
(a) The doctor
(b) The mechanic
(c) The insurance company
(d) The dentist

3. How much money is involved?
(a) Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
(b) Fifty thousand dollars
(c) Twenty thousand dollars
(d) Two hundred thousand dollars

4. Why does Linda stop picking up the flowers from the floor?
(a) Happy picks up the flowers for her.
(b) There are no more flowers to pick up.
(c) Her back is painful.
(d) She refuses anymore to act as a maid for her sons.

5. What does Biff suggest is the reason for his reluctance to have called on Oliver in the first place?
(a) Biff's theft of the basketballs all those years ago.
(b) Biff's theft of the fountain pen.
(c) Biff's inefficiency in the shipping area.
(d) Biff's getting the sack for laziness.

6. To what "cowardly thing" does Ben refer?
(a) Bankruptcy
(b) Suicide
(c) Scapegoating another person
(d) Divorce

7. What does Happy fail to see in Biff's offer?
(a) He cannot see how it will find him planty of girlfriends.
(b) He cannot see how it will make him any quick money.
(c) He cannot see that he will have to work hard.
(d) He cannot see that it is an opportunity.

8. To whom is Willy referring when he says, "He thinks I'm nothing?"
(a) Biff
(b) Charley
(c) Howard
(d) Happy

9. What does Biff again offer to Happy?
(a) A free dinner at Frank's Chop House
(b) A future with him in the country
(c) To split the insurance money
(d) A partnership in a sporting goods retail enterprize

10. According to Charley, when was Willy a happy man?
(a) When he was working "with a batch of cement."
(b) When he was at home, eating American cheese.
(c) When he was on the road, traveling "with a smile and a shoeshine."
(d) When he was working "with his customers."

11. What is Charley's assessment of the funeral?
(a) It was too cheap.
(b) It was very nice.
(c) It was moving.
(d) It should not have happened yet.

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

13. Which character "never knew who he was?"
(a) Bernard
(b) Willy
(c) Howard
(d) Biff

14. How do we know the scene takes place at the close of the day?
(a) Charley says: 'It's getting Dark, Linda."
(b) Linda says: "Oh, it's getting dark."
(c) The moon can be seen coming up.
(d) The stage directions indicate this.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Biff gives Willy for Birnbaum's dislike of him?

2. What other device is Willy using?

3. How does Happy advise his brother to deal with the Bill Oliver matter?

4. Who is Letta?

5. What does Linda ask Willy to forgive?

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