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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 Happy's version of the great dream?
(a) To buy a ranch and build guest houses on it
(b) To buy a condo in Florida
(c) To come out number-one man
(d) To be merchandise manager

2. Which character "never knew who he was?"
(a) Howard
(b) Biff
(c) Willy
(d) Bernard

3. What does Happy fail to see in Biff's offer?
(a) He cannot see how it will make him any quick money.
(b) He cannot see that he will have to work hard.
(c) He cannot see how it will find him planty of girlfriends.
(d) He cannot see that it is an opportunity.

4. According to Charley, when was Willy a happy man?
(a) When he was on the road, traveling "with a smile and a shoeshine."
(b) When he was working "with a batch of cement."
(c) When he was at home, eating American cheese.
(d) When he was working "with his customers."

5. What does Linda try to prevent Biff from doing?
(a) Leaving for Alaska
(b) Talking to his father
(c) Accusing his father of lying
(d) Going upstairs

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Woman retreat to in the Boston hotel?

2. What is the woman wearing?

3. How has Biff passed Math in the past?

4. What caution does Ben offer?

5. Which character is excited about jury duty?

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

3. Is Charley's summation of Willy and his life as a salesman an accurate one?

4. What is Willy's final fantasy?

5. What is Willy's reaction to Biff's attempt to tell the day's events truthfully?

6. What insight does Biff experience in the few moments he does get to see Bill Oliver?

7. In what way, according to Willy, does a man have to "add up to something" when he leaves this world?

8. Why did Willy never find true happiness?

9. What is one function of the figure of Ben in his last manifestation inside Willy's head?

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

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