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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 the outcome of Willy's visit to Howard?
(a) Howard tells Willy he must work in Boston.
(b) Willy is given the desk job that he wants.
(c) Willy is fired.
(d) Willy loses his temper and resigns.

2. What is it that Linda almost forgets to tell Willy?
(a) That she needs two hundred dollars to cover the month's expenses.
(b) That he is to meet Bill Oliver at Frank's Chop House.
(c) That he is to meet the boys for dinner at Frank's Chop House.
(d) That he is to give Charley an answer about a job.

3. Why does Willy need to borrow money from Charley?
(a) He cannot afford his next car payment.
(b) He has no money to buy Linda a birthday present.
(c) He has a loan shark after him and is terrified.
(d) He cannot afford his insurance premium.

4. What is a synonym for 'trepidation'?
(a) Disquiet
(b) Trembling
(c) Anger
(d) Timidity

5. At what time does Happy give Linda some money?
(a) Thanksgiving
(b) Christmas
(c) Her birthday
(d) Memorial Day

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Willy get the money he says is his pay?

2. Why does Willy become annoyed with Linda?

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

4. For what reason does Willy think the builder should have been arrested?

5. How long has it taken the Lomans to pay off their house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Willy unexpectedly returned from his journey?

2. In what picturesque way does Linda reinforce for Biff that his father needs support and nurturing?

3. 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?

4. What is Linda's attitude to Willy's return?

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

6. In what way does the commercial world intrude into the wire recorder demonstration?

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

8. What is the significance of the way the Loman house is presented when the play begins?

9. What erratic behavior of Willy's indicates that he is disintegrating emotionally?

10. In the card game scene, what evidence of Willy's unused abilities is presented?

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