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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character seems to be the only steady person in the house?
(a) Tobias
(b) Julia
(c) Agnes
(d) Harry

2. Why do Harry and Edna emerge?
(a) To get a suitcase from the car
(b) To make a request
(c) To turn down the thermostat
(d) To go to the bathroom

3. Who does Tobias attempt to defend all the time?
(a) Maddox
(b) Sylvia
(c) Annie
(d) Claire

4. Who perplexes Julia in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Sylvia
(b) Harry and Edna
(c) Patrice
(d) Doug

5. Claire wonders aloud about _______________________.
(a) things she has to do tomorrow
(b) Edna's bad haircut
(c) Harry's bad manners
(d) when it would begin

6. What is Agnes pondering as Act 1 begins?
(a) What she should wear to dinner tonight.
(b) What it would be like to go mad.
(c) What she should plant in the vegetable garden.
(d) What it would be like to be a flight attendant.

7. Tobias recalls ______________ who stopped loving him.
(a) his mother
(b) a cat
(c) his brother
(d) his first wife

8. What is Claire's affliction?
(a) She is an alcoholic.
(b) She is overweight.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She is dyslexic.

9. Tobias tells Julia that Agnes and Tobias are ____________________.
(a) real people
(b) her adoptive parents
(c) moving to Europe
(d) getting a divorce

10. What does Agnes worry about more than she worries about going mad?
(a) Her sister-in-law, Claire
(b) Her daughter, Claire
(c) Her best friend, Claire
(d) Her sister, Claire

11. Who overhears what Agnes has been saying about Claire?
(a) Sylvia
(b) Jane
(c) Claire
(d) Julia

12. When does Agnes plan to speak to Julia?
(a) At the theater.
(b) When Julia goes home.
(c) When they are alone.
(d) Over cocktails.

13. What is the relationship between Agnes and Tobias?
(a) Brother and sister
(b) Married
(c) Separated
(d) In-laws

14. Why does the character in #67 begin to pick fights?
(a) Over bad debts
(b) Over marital choices
(c) Over finances
(d) Over some perceived slights

15. Agnes feels that going mad would be very _______________.
(a) idealistic
(b) scary
(c) appropriate
(d) liberating

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acts are in this play?

2. Who is Julia's husband?

3. How many times have Harry and Edna emerged?

4. What is the setting for Act 1?

5. Tobias could not force the cat to _________________.

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