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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. How many strokes does the "English clock" strike at the beginning of The Bald Soprano?
(a) 17.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.
2. In The Bald Soprano, who says, "you are both partly right. When the doorbell rings, sometimes there is someone, other times there is no one"?
(a) Mrs. Martin.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) The fire chief.
(d) Mrs. Smith.
3. What question does the student answer wrong in her beginnings with the professor?
(a) Six minus one.
(b) Four plus one.
(c) Four minus one.
(d) Four minus three.
4. What is another word for phonemes?
(a) Languages.
(b) Subtraction.
(c) Integers.
(d) Sounds.
5. The pupil asks the Professor, "are all the roots of words ____?"
(a) Short.
(b) Latin.
(c) Annunciated.
(d) Square.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who tells a story about seeing a man in the underground reading a newspaper in The Bald Soprano?
2. What are the following languages, according to the professor? Spanish, Latin, Italian, French, Portuguese, etc.
3. What do the Smith's discuss about dinner in The Bald Soprano?
4. Whose mother courted Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano?
5. What story does Mrs. Smith tell in The Bald Soprano?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the distinguishing qualities of the set and the Smiths in The Bald Soprano.
2. How does the professor attempt to teach the pupil arithmetic?
3. What is the beginning conversation between the Smiths and the Martins like?
4. How does the ending of The Lesson relate to the other plays' endings in the collection?
5. What is Absurdism and how does it inhabit the four plays of the book?
6. Describe the doorbell in The Bald Soprano.
7. What story does Mary tell the Smiths and Martins?
8. How is The Lesson absurd? How is it realistic?
9. What do the Smiths and Martins do after the fire chief has left?
10. Describe the professor's discourse on philology.
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