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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would be an accurate description of Jill?
(a) 20-something college student.
(b) 40-year-old suburban housewife.
(c) 30-something lawyer.
(d) 50-something college professor.

2. What does Scoop do that is somewhat unusual?
(a) Takes off their shoes at the door.
(b) Dances solo in the middle of the floor.
(c) Assigns a grade to everything they see or hear.
(d) Sniffs their food before eating.

3. What is Heidi attending when Act 1, Scene 5 opens?
(a) An art exhibit.
(b) Peter's wedding.
(c) The movies.
(d) The wedding of Scoop and Lisa.

4. What is the first thing that Scoop does to Heidi at this dance?
(a) Tells her she needs to get a better job.
(b) Tells her she needs to lose weight.
(c) Deserts her at the party.
(d) Critiques her and tells her she has an inferiority complex.

5. Three years after the high school dance, who is Heidi campaigning for?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Eugene McCarthy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

6. What song is playing when Act 1, Scene 3 ends?
(a) Can't Always Get What You Want.
(b) Beast of Burden.
(c) R-E-S-P-E-C-T
(d) Brown Sugar Blues.

7. What piece of information does Peter share with Heidi in Chicago?
(a) He hates medical school.
(b) He is moving to Italy.
(c) He is about to be married.
(d) He is gay.

8. In what decade does the high school take place?
(a) The 1950's.
(b) The 1980's.
(c) The 1960's.
(d) The 1970's.

9. What is the focus of the group of women meeting in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Art history and gender issues.
(b) How to keep pigeons away from downtown.
(c) Traffic flow in neighborhoods.
(d) Women's consciousness-raising discussion.

10. What year does Act 1, Scene 5 open in?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1977.

11. What is Scoop's prediction?
(a) That he will be an actor.
(b) That Heidi will be a university dean.
(c) That he will be president.
(d) He will remember that he thought he could fall in love with her.

12. What does Heidi do to try to get away from Scoop at this dance?
(a) Gives a fake name.
(b) Says she is due at her mother's house.
(c) Says she is late for class.
(d) Hides in the bathroom.

13. What does Heidi teach?
(a) Art history.
(b) Women's issues.
(c) World civilization.
(d) British literature.

14. What other two characteristics describe Heidi?
(a) Angry and lazy.
(b) Uneducated and unkind.
(c) Prickly and stubborn.
(d) Funny and a feminist.

15. Who arrives and begins to make fun of Heidi's and Debbie's protest?
(a) Peter.
(b) Becky.
(c) Scoop.
(d) Fran.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Heidi and her friend Debbie protesting in Act 1, Scene 4?

2. What one prediction does Scoop make at the party that involves Heidi?

3. Why is Peter irritated with Heidi in Act 1, Scene 4?

4. How does Heidi begin her path toward feminism?

5. Why does Becky question Jill when Jill makes her offer?

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