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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. When leading her to say "autumn," what does the professor say it begins like?
(a) August.
(b) Automobile.
(c) Automatic.
(d) Autonomous.

2. In The Lesson, the professor says that a bad what can get you into trouble?
(a) Pronunciation.
(b) Education.
(c) Brain.
(d) Arithmetic.

3. 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"?
(a) Mr. Martin.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) Mary.
(d) The fire chief.

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

5. What guests have arrived in The Bald Soprano?
(a) The Websters.
(b) The Watsons.
(c) The Martins.
(d) The Smiths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the Watsons' children in The Bald Soprano?

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

3. The professor states in The Lesson, "every tongue is at bottom nothing but _____."

4. What doctor, before operating on Parker, "had his own liver operated on first," in The Bald Soprano?

5. The Smiths were given seven silver what for their wedding in The Bald Soprano?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the differences between The Bald Soprano and the other plays in the collection.

2. What story does Mary tell the Smiths and Martins?

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

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

5. How is The Lesson absurd? How is it realistic?

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

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

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

9. What is the beginning conversation between the Smiths and the Martins like?

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

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