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

2. How does Willy explain the Woman's presence to Biff?
(a) He says she is a buyer for Westinghouse and has lost her car keys.
(b) He says she is a buyer for J. H. Simmons who is running away from a violent husband.
(c) He says she is a visiting executive who has been accidentally locked out of her room.
(d) He says she is a buyer for J. H. Simmons and her room is being painted.

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

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

5. What does Charley say causes an earthquake?
(a) The San Andreas Fault
(b) Someone having an affair.
(c) A young man flunking Math.
(d) When people start to not smile back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Biff reveals __________________ when he says, "I know who I am, kid."

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

3. What is the name of the hotel where Willy is staying in Boston?

4. How does Linda react to Charley's words at the beginning of the scene?

5. What does Happy fail to see in Biff's offer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of Willy's words, "The gist of it is that I haven't got a story left in my head."?

2. What is Willy's final fantasy?

3. Is Biff correct in saying of Willy that "He never knew who he was."?

4. Account for Linda's bewilderment at Willy's suicide.

5. What is wrong with Happy's assertion that "the only dream you can have [is] to come out number one man."?

6. Which personal qualities does Happy reveal when Miss Forsythe enters the restaurant and he talks to her?

7. Did Willy Loman die in vain?

8. How is it that Biff has come to regard his father as a hypocrite?

9. In what way is Willy's life echoed in Biff's account of his attempt to see Bill Oliver?

10. In what way is Happy's betrayal of his father ironic?

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