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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Weller accuse Fonsia of doing in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Of cheating.
(b) Of convincing the staff to send a psychologist out to see Weller.
(c) Of turning him in to the nurses and branding him a trouble-maker.
(d) Of convincing the staff to change Weller's medications.

2. How did Fonsia separate from her husband?
(a) By moving out of the house.
(b) By packing up her son and leaving town.
(c) By putting everything he owned on the street.
(d) By suing him for everything he had.

3. How is the way in which Fonsia plays her discard in the final hand of the play vindictive?
(a) By taking Weller's discard and closing the game with it.
(b) By pretending to discard the card Weller needs, then calling gin at the last second.
(c) By laughing hysterically after drawing the card she needed to win.
(d) By calling Weller a name as she calls gin.

4. When Fonsia confronts Weller about his ruse in Act 2, Scene 2, what is Weller's response?
(a) He looses his temper.
(b) He grovels.
(c) He denies it.
(d) He apologizes.

5. What is Weller's reaction of gin being called in the final hand in the play?
(a) He dances like a mad man in the rain.
(b) He strikes out at Fonsia's chair with his cane.
(c) He throws the deck of cards at Fonsia.
(d) He flips over the table.

6. What inconsequential mistake in her card playing does Weller bring to Fonsia's attention?
(a) Of not putting the discard card face up when calling gin.
(b) Of not putting the discard card face down when calling gin.
(c) Of not having her card total ready when calling gin.
(d) For slapping her cards when calling gin.

7. In Act 2, Scene 1, what is Weller referring to when he says "a warehouse for the intellectually and emotionally dead."
(a) The Home.
(b) The Hospice Ward.
(c) The State Legislature.
(d) The Senate.

8. What entertainment takes place over the last hand of gin?
(a) A choir strikes up.
(b) A televangelist plays in the background.
(c) A magic performance takes place.
(d) The Extended Family visits.

9. When is lightning used in the final scene of the play?
(a) At times of dramatic physical action.
(b) When Fonsia makes true statements.
(c) At the beginning and end.
(d) At the end of statements made by Weller.

10. In Act 2, Scene 1, after Weller claims that Fonsia will no longer receive any help from him, what happens?
(a) He discards the card she needs for gin.
(b) Fonsia knocks and wins the game.
(c) He calls gin, but incorrectly.
(d) Fonsia is of help to him by discarding a card he needs.

11. As Fonsia loses her temper in Act 2, Scene 2, what changes take place in her language?
(a) Her grammar becomes worse.
(b) She begins to curse.
(c) Her statements become condescending.
(d) She increasingly repeats herself.

12. According to Weller in Act 2, Scene 1, what is the hottest topic of discussion at the Home?
(a) Family.
(b) The gospel hour.
(c) One's funeral arrangements.
(d) Canned vegetables.

13. Who was Ty Cobb?
(a) A basketball player.
(b) A football player.
(c) A musician.
(d) A baseball player.

14. What can be "rather awesome at times," according to Weller?
(a) The spring weather.
(b) The welfare beurocracy.
(c) His temper.
(d) The boredom.

15. What are Weller's final words of the play?
(a) His final words are to call for a doctor.
(b) "I win, I win!"
(c) "Damnit to hell"
(d) "Gin, gin, gin."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fonsia discard a Jack in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. According to Fonsia, what scared her about her last encounter with Weller?

3. In Act 2, Scene 1, according to Fonsia, every second breath of Weller's has to be what?

4. What promise does Weller quickly break in Act 2, Scene 1?

5. When it comes to men, Fonsia admits that she's been what?

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