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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 wrong with Biff whistling in the elevator?
(a) It annoys other people in the lift.
(b) It indicates he is irresponsible and childish.
(c) It indicates he is over confident.
(d) It is tuneless.

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

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

4. What change has Happy noticed in Biff?
(a) Biff has lost his old humor and confidence.
(b) Biff has become withdrawn and sad.
(c) Biff has lost his sense of humor and has become bad-tempered.
(d) Biff has put on weight and seems confused.

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Willy pay for Biff's radio correspondence course?

2. For how long was Linda unable to contact Biff?

3. What does Biff need to do in order to avoid flunking Math?

4. What make of car does Willy currently drive?

5. What suggests to us that Biff has returned from a journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Willy say '"Im always in a race with the junkyard!"?

2. What does the audience learn about Linda from her great confrontation with her sons in Act 1?

3. What is Willy's mood when he leaves for his interview with Howard Wagner?

4. What is Happy's attitude to the news that his father is contemplating suicide?

5. What is revealed about Willy during his hallucinatory return to the past?

6. What important idea in the play is referenced by Linda's words, 'He could be--anything--in that suit!"?

7. In what sense is Willy ironic when he comments that it is obscene for Biff not to have found himself by the age of thirty-four?

8. What is revealed about teenage Biff's popularity with girls?

9. Why has Willy unexpectedly returned from his journey?

10. Comment about Willy's assertion that "I never in my life told him anything but decent things."

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