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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 is Veta Simmons trying to do at the sanitarium?
(a) Evaluate the facilities for future fund-raising events.
(b) Create a business partnership with Ruth Kelly.
(c) Have Elwood Dowd commited for evaluation.
(d) Introduce Myrtle Mae Simmons to Wilson.

2. What does Dr. Lyman Sanderson ask about Veta Simmons?
(a) Whether or not she would like a job at Chumley's rest.
(b) What her habits are and if she's still grieving for her mother.
(c) When can she come in for therapy.
(d) Where she currently lives.

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

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

5. Who does Dr. Lyman Sanderson believe needs immediate treatment?
(a) Veta Simmons.
(b) Ethel Chauvenet.
(c) Elwood Dowd.
(d) Ruth Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What one word best sums up the type of humor in this scene?

2. How do the employees of the sanitarium regard Dr. William Chumley?

3. What does Betty Chumley tell the sanitarium staff about Harvey?

4. What is the name of Dr. William Chumley's wife?

5. Who is ultimately locked up in the sanitarium in this scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Myrtle Mae Simmons feel about her uncle?

2. Why does Ethel Chauvenet react the way she does when introduced to Harvey?

3. What does Dr. Lyman Sanderson believe is Veta Simmons' motivation for coming to the sanitarium and telling him about Elwood Dowd and Harvey?

4. Why is Dr. Lyman Sanderson mortified when he learns that Elwood Dowd has been sent upstairs at the sanitarium?

5. Describe Elwood Dowd's feelings toward Ruth Kelly.

6. What do we learn about Elwood Dowd in this first scene of the play?

7. What does Dr. Lyman Sanderson think is best for Veta Simmons?

8. How does Elwood Dowd treat everyone on the sanitarium's staff?

9. Why does Veta Simmons ask her daughter to be especially nice to Ethel Chauvenet?

10. Describe the nurse, Ruth Kelly.

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