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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What suggests to us that Biff has returned from a journey?
2. What happens as Willy is driving on the highway?
3. When Linda says "You notice?", what is she referring to?
4. What worrying news does Bernard bring?
5. Who is Willy's employer?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does the commercial world intrude into the wire recorder demonstration?
2. Why does Willy say '"Im always in a race with the junkyard!"?
3. As this scene (inside Willy's head) continues, what false idea does Willy peddle to his sons?
4. What does the audience learn about Linda from her great confrontation with her sons in Act 1?
5. What does Biff suggest he and Happy do to change their lives?
6. What erratic behavior of Willy's indicates that he is disintegrating emotionally?
7. In what picturesque way does Linda reinforce for Biff that his father needs support and nurturing?
8. What reassuring news does Linda give Biff when he phones her?
9. What important idea in the play is referenced by Linda's words, 'He could be--anything--in that suit!"?
10. What is revealed about teenage Biff's popularity with girls?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Linda: 'It sounds so old-fashioned and silly, but I tell you he put his whole life into you and you've turned your backs on him.'"
Account for Biff's and Happy's treatment of their father, making close reference to the text.
Essay Topic 2
"Death of a Salesman is a savage indictment of commercial values." Discuss with close reference to the play.
Essay Topic 3
"The commercial world inhabited by Willy Loman is very different from that which operates in the twenty-first century. Willy's tragedy would be impossible today." Referring to the text and to your knowledge of today's world, either agree with or refute this statement.
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