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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. Veta Simmons informs Dr. William Chumley that she knows where Elwood Dowd is. Where is he?
(a) He's in the mansion's basement.
(b) He's at the sanitarium.
(c) He's waiting at the bus stop.
(d) He's at Charlie's Place.

2. What does Ruth Kelly ask Elwood Dowd when she first sees him in this scene?
(a) Where Dr. William Chumley is.
(b) How Veta Simmons is doing.
(c) How Harvey is doing.
(d) Where the library is.

3. What does Veta Simmons ask the judge to do?
(a) Help her to her room.
(b) Execute a restraining order on Wilson.
(c) Sue the sanitarium.
(d) Take her out to dinner.

4. What does Elwood Dowd do immediately upon arriving home?
(a) He sneaks down to the basement to be alone.
(b) He picks up Myrtle Mae Simmons' package and runs outside with it.
(c) He pours himself some liquor from the bottle hidden in the bookshelf.
(d) He makes a phone call to Betty Chumley.

5. What is Ruth Kelly's reaction to Elwood Dowd's story about Dr. William Chumley?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She is amused.
(c) She seems to believe him.
(d) She seems shocked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of advice does Dr. Lyman Sanderson give Ruth Kelly?

2. What does Dr. William Chumley want to know about Elwood Dowd?

3. What does Elwood Dowd want to know from Ruth Kelly and Dr. Lyman Sanderson?

4. Veta Simmons was extremely upset by the doctors' questions at Chumley's Rest because they all related to _______________.

5. According to the phone conversation at the beginning of this scene, who has gone missing for four hours?

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes clear about Elwood Dowd in this scene?

2. Why do you think Wilson is agitated when he finally locates Elwood Dowd back at Chumley's Rest?

3. How does Dr. William Chumley get escorted out of Charlie's Place, according to Elwood Dowd?

4. Why is Veta Simmons speech about the importance of art significant, if at all?

5. How does Dr. Lyman Sanderson try to psychoanalyze Elwood Dowd's relationship with Harvey?

6. What do you think Elwood Dowd meant when he confesses "I wrestled with reality for forty years and I am happy to state that I finally won out over it"?

7. With whom does Elwood Dowd speak to on the phone when he arrives home and what does he talk about?

8. What type of mechanism is relied on in this scene to generate its many comedic moments?

9. According to Elwood Dowd, how did Harvey get his name?

10. Which other characters do you think are starting to believe in Harvey by the end of this scene? Why do they do this?

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