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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Act 2, Scene 1, what is Fonsia's response to the name Weller calls her?
(a) Throws her cards at him.
(b) Storms off.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Curses at him.

2. What word did Fonsia have to look up for twenty-five years?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Tranferred.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Ill.

3. How did Weller find himself in this Home?
(a) He had to beg them to take him now that he was out of money.
(b) Weller was placed in this home by the Welfare Department.
(c) His sons placed him in "this cheap home."
(d) Himself, by giving them the last of his savings.

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

5. According to Fonsia, what scared her about her last encounter with Weller?
(a) Weller's throwing of the card table.
(b) Weller's yelling.
(c) Weller's language.
(d) Weller's red face.

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

7. What confession does Fonsia make to Weller towards the end of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) That she is also on welfare.
(b) That her son does hate her.
(c) That she did cheat at gin.
(d) That she did turn him in to the nurses.

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

9. According to Weller, Fonsia makes harsh judgments. How does he feel that she's judged him?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Made him out to be crazy.
(c) Made him out to be a hopeless sinner.
(d) Made him out to be a potential murderer.

10. What kind of work did Fonsia do before retiring?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Apartment manager.

11. What did Fonsia do with the Ash Street house?
(a) She sold it.
(b) She gave over the management of it to her son.
(c) She gave it to her son.
(d) She gave it to the Presbyterian church.

12. Why does Weller throw the score card to the ground in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Because he can't remember the score and it doesn't matter anyhow.
(b) Because he has yet to win a single hand.
(c) Because Fonsia stands up for herself.
(d) Because Fonsia knocked again.

13. What illness put Weller in the convalescent home?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Lung cancer.

14. What time of day does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Morning.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Evening.

15. How was Weller possibly a dishonest business man?
(a) By exaggerating his travel expenses.
(b) By taking more for his work than it was worth.
(c) By selling his company out from underneath his partners.
(d) By cutting his partners out of the profits.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Weller plan to trick Fonsia in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. What lie does Weller, through guess work, discover?

3. In Act 2, Scene 2, Fonsia counters that it is Weller who is vindictive. In what way?

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

5. Who are the Sunshine Ladies?

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