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

2. Which is the first of several lies Happy tells Miss Forsythe?
(a) That Biff is a famous footballer
(b) That he sells silk stockings
(c) That he is a champagne salesman
(d) That he is a famous footballer

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

4. What distance does Willy measure between the rows?
(a) One foot
(b) One inch
(c) One chain
(d) One meter

5. What does Biff think Linda needs?
(a) Some rest
(b) Some money
(c) Some flowers
(d) Some new silk stockings

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is excited about jury duty?

2. Which character "never knew who he was?"

3. What size stockings does the woman demand?

4. Where does Stanley suggest Willy buy seeds?

5. What does Linda order her sons to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Account for Willy's anger towards Biff.

2. How does Biff feel about lying to his father about the Bill Oliver interview?

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

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

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

6. Why does Linda want to prevent the boys speaking to their father?

7. Has Willy any idea of what it is that has caused his estrangement from Biff?

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

9. What cautions does Ben advise concerning Willy's plan to commit suicide?

10. Is Death of a Salesman an uncompromising indictment of "The American Dream"?

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