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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 does Elwood Dowd tell Betty Chumley on the phone?
(a) That he was in love with her.
(b) That he would like her to meet Harvey.
(c) That he was ready to turn himself in to the sanitarium.
(d) That he attended the cocktail party and didn't see her there.

2. Where does this scene take place?
(a) Charlie's Place.
(b) A padded cell.
(c) The office in Chumley's Rest.
(d) The Dowd mansion.

3. Who enters, looking disheveled and shaken?
(a) Elwood Dowd.
(b) Myrtle Mae Simmons.
(c) Dr. William Chumley.
(d) Veta Simmons.

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

5. Who says "A painting shows not only the reality but the dream behind it"?
(a) Dr. William Chumley.
(b) Elwood Dowd.
(c) Veta Simmons.
(d) Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Elwood Dowd talks to his sister on the phone?

2. Where does Dr. Lyman Sanderson take Elwood Dowd?

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

4. What does Harvey look like, according to this scene?

5. What is Veta Simmons' reaction when she sees the portrait of Elwood Dowd and Harvey on the mantle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Elwood Dowd enter the sanitarium with flowers for Ruth Kelly?

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

5. What is Elwood Dowd's reaction to the parcel brought out by Myrtle Mae Simmons?

6. Who enters the sanitarium toward the end of this scene? What is this person's emotional state?

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

8. In one or two sentences, describe how the evening's events transpired, according to Elwood Dowd.

9. What does Ruth Kelly find out when she calls Charlie's Place to verify Elwood Dowd's story?

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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