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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tom fired for?

2. What does Jim tell Tom is the difference between them and the men in the office down front?

3. What does Amanda claim science creates more of rather than clears up?

4. What refreshment does Amanda bring in to Laura and Jim?

5. What reason does Laura give for not coming to the table?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jim explain to Amanda that Laura looks so serious?

2. What does Amanda do as soon as Jim has left the house?

3. What happens to Laura when she learns who it is that is coming to dinner with Tom?

4. What does Amanda blame Laura's weakness on when she comes to the table and has to be taken to the couch?

5. What does Amanda say about the supper that has been prepared?

6. Why did Laura go to all three of Jim's high school choir performances of The Pirates of Penzance?

7. Why is Jim on friendly terms with Tom at the warehouse and he feel that Tom is valuable to him?

8. Why is it that Tom couldn't leave Laura behind?

9. What things does Tom say described what Jim was like and what he did in high school?

10. Why does she tell Jim that he should look at the fuse box and not Tom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

You are allowed to hear two phone calls that Amanda made while she was trying to sell the magazine subscriptions. What are you able to learn about her character listening to her end of the conversation? Do you think that she was successful in her attempts to sell the subscriptions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What was the significance in the story of showing that Amanda goes to D.A.R. meetings? Amanda mentioned a position that she was getting when she happened to stop into Laura's college. What kind of position do you think she would have been inducted ?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think happened to Laura after Tom and Jim left the apartment? What do you think became of Amanda? What do you get from the play that leads you to these conclusions?

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