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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Veta Simmons, what keeps people going and separates them from "the beasts"?
(a) Gasoline-powered cars.
(b) Desire for acceptance.
(c) Our dreams.
(d) Ambition.

2. What are Veta Simmons and Ruth Kelly talking about?
(a) The weather.
(b) The conditions at Chumley's Rest.
(c) The latest hit song on the radio.
(d) Elwood Dowd.

3. Who is speaking to Veta Simmons as the scene opens?
(a) Dr. Lyman Sanderson.
(b) Ruth Kelly, a nurse at the sanitarium.
(c) Dr. William Chumley.
(d) Wilson.

4. As the scene opens, who is talking on the phone?
(a) Dr. Lyman Sanderson.
(b) Ruth Kelly.
(c) Dr. William Chumley.
(d) Wilson.

5. What reason does the nurse, Ruth Kelly, give to Dr. Lyman Sanderson for wanting the two of them to join Elwood Dowd for drinks later that night?
(a) Elwood Dowd is such a gentleman.
(b) Elwood Dowd promised to pay.
(c) Elwood Dowd could teach them how to drink flaming shots.
(d) Elwood Dowd was pitiful and sad and needed company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters with a bouquet of flowers for Ruth Kelly?

2. Veta Simmons informs Dr. William Chumley that she knows where Elwood Dowd is. Where is he?

3. What does Dr. William Chumley assure Judge Gaffney of to hopefully avoid a lawsuit?

4. How tall is Harvey, according to Elwood Dowd?

5. According to Elwood Dowd, what exactly IS his invisible friend?

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