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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. What compliment does Weller make to Fonsia in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) For her style.
(b) For her card playing.
(c) For having a good mind.
(d) For her good manners.

2. Who are the Sunshine Ladies?
(a) A gospel group.
(b) The ladies who prepare meals at the Home.
(c) A group that visits the Home.
(d) The nurses who hand out medication.

3. Weller says he would have knocked Fonsia's teeth in had she done to him what she did to her spouse. What is her response?
(a) She would never have given him the chance.
(b) Asks if this is why his first wife left him.
(c) He wouldn't dare.
(d) She would have had him thrown in jail.

4. In Act 2, Scene 2, how does Fonsia drive home the example of Weller always having to be 'the victim of bad luck,' as opposed to accepting his mistakes?
(a) By suggesting his wife wouldn't have left him had he been a stronger man.
(b) By suggesting his temper has lost him more than a gin partner.
(c) By suggesting his business partners were probably better business men.
(d) By suggesting he was always bound for welfare.

5. In Act 2, Scene 1, according to Fonsia, every second breath of Weller's has to be what?
(a) A curse.
(b) An insult.
(c) Short.
(d) Forced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Weller deal while he and Fonsia converse at the start of Act 2, Scene 1?

2. In Act 2, Scene 1, what is Weller referring to when he says "a warehouse for the intellectually and emotionally dead."

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

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

5. What parallel does Fonsia draw between Weller and her ex-husband in the final scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point is Weller trying to drive home to Fonsia in his relation of the Ty Cobb story in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. Explain the exchange of the sweater in Act 2, Scene 2. What could the exchange of the sweater represent?

3. Fonsia criticizes Weller for always blaming his failures on bad luck. How is this criticism true?

4. In Act 2, Scene 1, are Weller's apologies sincere? What about his motive?

5. Do you think Fonsia 'fed' Weller the Jack of Hearts in Act 2, Scene 1? Explain why.

6. Weller criticizes Fonsia for being vindictive. How does she exemplify this behavior?

7. Given his behavior throughout the play, has Weller gone mad in Act 2, Scene 1?

8. What does Weller mean when he says "people say exactly what the hell they mean- then they say, 'I was only kidding.'"

9. How many hands has Weller won throughout the play?

10. Fonsia criticizes Weller for being cynical. Can you provide an example from the play of Weller's cynicism?

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