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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam say to Max about why Sam helped take care of Jessie?
(a) Sam reminds Max that Jessie had trouble hearing.
(b) Sam says he helped Jessie because she was his sister.
(c) Sam tells Max he could afford to give Jessie money.
(d) Sam reminds Max that he was the only one Max trusted with Jessie.

2. Why does Max say that when Sam gets married, he should bring his bride home?
(a) Max will give her a family heirloom.
(b) Max will tell her the family's history.
(c) There will be a big party.
(d) She can cook for them.

3. When does Max say that Sam will be out of the house?
(a) When Max renovates the house
(b) When Sam retires
(c) When Max sells the property
(d) When Lenny gets married

4. What does Max describe as "one flow of stinking pus after another?"
(a) Gangsters
(b) Generations
(c) Policemen
(d) Politicians

5. What did Lenny tell Ruth he had been asked to help an old woman with?
(a) Getting to the doctor
(b) Finding her cat
(c) A dresser she needed moved
(d) An old-fashioned washing machine

6. What do Lenny and Max bicker about?
(a) Paying for groceries
(b) Max's cooking
(c) The leaking roof
(d) Lenny's chores

7. How long ago did Teddy move out of the family home?
(a) A week
(b) Several months
(c) Several days
(d) Many years

8. When he first appears in the play, Max enters the living room and is looking for a scissor for what reason?
(a) He needs to open a package.
(b) He wants to cut something out of the paper.
(c) He wants to trim his hair.
(d) He plans to use them to threaten Lenny.

9. Where does Ruth tell Lenny she and Teddy live?
(a) America
(b) Australia
(c) Italy
(d) England

10. When he first arrives home, what does Teddy find out about his room?
(a) Max is using his room as a storage area.
(b) His room is still the same.
(c) Lenny has moved into his room.
(d) His room is being rented out.

11. Abandoning his search for the scissors, Max lights a cigarette he has gotten from where?
(a) From his pocket
(b) From the desk
(c) From Lenny's jacket
(d) From the ashtray

12. Who was Jessie?
(a) Max's wife
(b) A former neighbor
(c) Sam and Max's sister
(d) Lenny's wife

13. Shortly after his arrival at the family home, what does Teddy offer Ruth?
(a) Some old photographs
(b) Something to eat and drink
(c) Somewhere to change her clothes
(d) Some family heirlooms

14. Which character has been on stage all through the first scene of the play?
(a) Lenny
(b) Max
(c) Joey
(d) Sam

15. What does Lenny say when Ruth asks how he knew the prostitute was diseased?
(a) Lenny says the prostitute's mother told him she was diseased.
(b) Lenny says he just decided she was diseased.
(c) Lenny says the prostitute told him she was diseased.
(d) Lenny says a buddy told him the prostitute was diseased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lenny say he did to the old woman instead of helping her?

2. Who, instead of Max, does Lenny say he should have asked for an answer to a question that's been bothering him?

3. After she finishes her water, where does Ruth go?

4. What does Lenny want Max to tell him?

5. What does Sam brag about?

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