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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 Willy doing in the garden?
(a) Watering the garden
(b) Eating American cheese
(c) Planting seeds
(d) Sitting on the stoop, drinking

2. 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.

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

4. What does Charley say is an "earthquake" for a salesman?
(a) When sales fall and he is sacked.
(b) When people stop smiling back.
(c) When he has to spend a week in San Francisco.
(d) When he drives off a bridge.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings flowers for Linda?

2. What valuable observation does Biff make about his father's legacy?

3. What does Willy imagine his funeral will reveal about him?

4. With what object does Biff confront Willy?

5. According to Charley, when was Willy a happy man?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the fact of Willy's severe disintegration communicated to the audience?

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

3. What information about his meeting with Bill Oliver does Biff supply to Willy?

4. Why does Charlie reply with just a grunt to Happy's angry attitude to his father's suicide and claim that "We would've helped him."?

5. Why did Willy never find true happiness?

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

7. According to Biff, what is at the core of Willy's (and his own) problems?

8. Account for Willy's anger towards Biff.

9. How is it again made evident that Willy Loman "had the wrong dreams"?

10. How does Happy think Biff should handle telling Willy the bad news when he arrives at the restaurant?

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