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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 do the Smith's discuss about dinner in The Bald Soprano?
(a) The eggs.
(b) The cobbler.
(c) The potatoes.
(d) The lamb.

2. In The Lesson, the professor says that "our contemporary life has become most" what?
(a) Insatiable.
(b) Cordial.
(c) Complex.
(d) Violent.

3. What is the name of the Martins' daughter in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Whitney.
(b) Alice.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Andrea.

4. Who is "a good manager, thrifty, plays the piano," in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Helen.
(b) Mrs. Martin.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Mary.

5. Whose mother courted Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano?
(a) The fire chief's.
(b) Mrs. Martin's.
(c) Mary's.
(d) Mr. Martin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the professor wear when entering in The Lesson?

2. Where has Mr. Martin resided since coming to London in The Bald Soprano?

3. Who is left on stage after the blackout at the end of The Bald Soprano?

4. In attempting a partial doctorate, the professor says he must attempt to instruct the pupil in what?

5. What does the professor go and take out of the drawer in the end of The Lesson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the professor do after the death of the pupil?

2. Describe the fire chief's arrival in The Bald Soprano.

3. Describe the professor's discourse on philology.

4. What is Absurdism and how does it inhabit the four plays of the book?

5. What is the effect of reading the stage directions before the action in The Lesson?

6. What do the Smiths and Martins respond to the fire chief? What does he do afterward?

7. Discuss tension and satire thematically in The Bald Soprano.

8. How does the professor attempt to teach the pupil arithmetic?

9. What does the maid interrupt the professor and pupil for?

10. What does the ending of The Bald Soprano mean?

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