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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. Of whom does the fire chief say, "It is she who extinguished my first fires"?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) Mary.

2. What does the maid enter to look for in the beginning of The Lesson?
(a) A plate.
(b) A duster.
(c) A bouquet.
(d) A towel.

3. Who is seated on stage at the opening of The Bald Soprano?
(a) The Kinsmen.
(b) The Smiths.
(c) The Martins.
(d) The Warrens.

4. Where would the professor just as soon live in The Lesson?
(a) New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

5. Where is the setting for The Lesson?
(a) The professor's office.
(b) The maid's room.
(c) The nursery.
(d) The pupil's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bobby Watson's wife's name in The Bald Soprano?

2. Who says, "times are bad. That's true all over. It's the same this year with business and agriculture as it is with fires, nothing is prospering"?

3. What language does the professor say that Turkish is very close to?

4. What does the pupil say she doesn't know all of yet and has trouble learning them in The Lesson?

5. In The Bald Soprano, the woman who asphyxiated herself by gas thought it was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Smiths and Martins do after the fire chief has left?

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

3. What object does the professor take from the shelf? What does he do with it?

4. What is similar about The Bald Soprano to the other plays in the book?

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

6. Why are the initial stage directions atypical in The Lesson?

7. What do the maid and the professor do at the end of The Lesson?

8. Describe the transitions of the professor and the pupil in The Lesson.

9. What happens in the beginning of The Lesson? What is the setting?

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

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