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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother Jack do to Roberta when she enters?
(a) Shakes her.
(b) Sniffs her.
(c) Shakes her hand.
(d) Chokes her.

2. In The Chairs, what does the first guest look like?
(a) Young.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Old.
(d) Businesslike.

3. Who has the old man hired in The Chairs?
(a) An Orator.
(b) A Janitor.
(c) A Mover.
(d) A Stage Hand.

4. What do the old woman and old man claim his job to be in The Chairs?
(a) Socialist endeavorist.
(b) General contractor.
(c) General factotum.
(d) Engineering manager.

5. Who says, in the beginning of Jack, or The Submission, "never would I have believed you capable of this. You were my greatest hope"?
(a) Father Robert.
(b) Father Jack.
(c) Mother Jack.
(d) Mother Robert.

6. What did Mother Jack teach Jack to do when he wanted to be stung as a child?
(a) Catch bees.
(b) Rub his knees with nettles.
(c) Drink milk.
(d) Rub his knees with honey.

7. Mother Jack tells Jack, "I've been a true sweetheart, a husband, a sailor, a buddy, a _____."
(a) Goose.
(b) Pal.
(c) Friend.
(d) Mother.

8. How many years have the old man and old woman been married in The Chairs?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 80 years.

9. What do the stage directions indicate about the newspaper men who arrive in The Chairs?
(a) They are short.
(b) They are fat.
(c) They are tall.
(d) They are elderly.

10. What word does Jacqueline call Jack which truly upsets him in Jack, or The Submission?
(a) Boystrable.
(b) Obtuse.
(c) Chronometrable.
(d) Instable.

11. What does Father Jack say Roberta's tongue is the color of?
(a) Tomato sauce.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Beets.
(d) Cherries.

12. What time does the old man say it is in the beginning of The Chairs?
(a) 7 p.m.
(b) 6 p.m.
(c) 10 p.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

13. The old man tells guests, "in order to prevent the exploitation of man by man, we need _____".
(a) Strength.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Time.

14. What does Roberta have two of?
(a) Noses.
(b) Heads.
(c) Mouths.
(d) Eyes.

15. What do the old man and old woman run out of in The Chairs?
(a) Candy.
(b) Chairs.
(c) Tea.
(d) Programs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Chairs. who is the second guest who arrives?

2. In The Chairs, how old is the old woman?

3. What does the old woman begin to sell once the room is packed?

4. In The Chairs, what does the old man call the old woman?

5. What is different about Roberta II than Roberta I?

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