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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 excuse does Ida Scott give Amanda for needing off the phone?
(a) Something burning in the oven
(b) Getting another call
(c) Kids are crying
(d) Someone at the door

2. What does Amanda do with Laura's typewriter keyboard diagram?
(a) Burns it
(b) Throws it out the window
(c) Tears it into pieces
(d) Spits on it

3. What is it that Laura had that caused the nickname Blue Roses?
(a) Influenza
(b) Pleurosis
(c) A Rash in the shape of a flower
(d) Mumps

4. What does Amanda want to be certain the gentlemen caller doesn't do that her husband did?
(a) Battle Reenactments
(b) Gamble
(c) Drink
(d) Flirt with other women

5. What does Amanda want Laura to do when she calls her from the kitchen?
(a) Make a wish on the moon
(b) Dance around the room
(c) Help her with the cleaning
(d) Play a record

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Laura describe Emily Meisenback's clothes in high school?

2. What does Amanda say Bates Cutrere was carrying the night he died?

3. Why does Amanda state she knows Tom isn't going to the movies?

4. What is the one thing about Tom's father that Amanda wishes he would try and emulate?

5. What does Amanda not say has "just gone up the spout?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jim stick in Laura's mind so much when she only knew him in high school?

2. What does Tom tell Amanda that they are going to have the following night?

3. How is the play conducted to show that it is a memory?

4. Why does Laura want Tom to apologize to Amanda?

5. How does Amanda describe the majority of her suitors and what became of them?

6. What reasons are discussed for the lack of gentlemen callers that Laura will be receiving that evening in scene one?

7. In what way does Amanda tell Tom she wouldn't mind him emulating his father?

8. Why are some of the things Tom and Amanda fighting at the start of scene three?

9. What are some of the things Tom lists that he hates about the warehouse?

10. What is the significance of Malvolio the Magician that Tom watches perform?

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