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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many women appear onstage in the play?
(a) Two
(b) None
(c) One
(d) Three

2. When Sam comes in from the kitchen, what does Max accuse Sam of doing?
(a) Taking other people's sides
(b) Breaking the radio
(c) Making noise out of resentment
(d) Forgetting to pick up the groceries

3. In the conversation after lunch, what happens when Teddy can't answer the question Lenny asks him?
(a) Lenny tells Teddy to forget about the question.
(b) Lenny pushes Teddy harder and begins to mock him.
(c) Lenny tells Teddy to take his time answering.
(d) Lenny asks Ruth to answer the question for Teddy.

4. In his long speech, what does Teddy call the members of his family?
(a) Animals
(b) Drunkards
(c) Objects
(d) Boors

5. Which two characters have been out working when the play begins but come home before Ruth and Teddy arrive?
(a) Lenny and Sam
(b) Joey and Sam
(c) Joey and Max
(d) Max and Sam

6. What two characters are up early the next morning at the opening of Act I, Scene 3?
(a) Teddy and Ruth
(b) Lenny and Joey
(c) Sam and Joey
(d) Joey and Max

7. After she has gotten up off the floor, what does Ruth ask Teddy?
(a) If the family has read any of his work
(b) If he remembers his mother
(c) If they're going to leave soon
(d) If his family always argues this much

8. In his long speech, what does Tedd say he won't do?
(a) Come back again to see the family
(b) Give his family anything
(c) Become lost in his family's lives
(d) Stoop to his family's level

9. On the morning after Teddy and Ruth's arrival, what does Max invite Joey to do in the afternoon?
(a) Go to a football game.
(b) Go to a movie.
(c) Go to the horse races.
(d) Drive to the ocean.

10. When Max realizes that Teddy and Ruth are not going to be thrown out of his house, what does Max do?
(a) Max tries to throw Ruth out the door.
(b) Max hits Joey.
(c) Max yells at Teddy.
(d) Max throws a dish at the wall.

11. When Joey, Max, and Lenny return home from the gym on the afternoon of the second day, what does Joey do?
(a) Argues with Teddy
(b) Reminds Lenny not to light fires in the fireplace
(c) Goes upstairs
(d) Takes Ruth to the sofa and kisses her

12. After Sam leaves for work, what comment does Max make to Teddy about his wedding?
(a) Max said he would have paid for it had he known it was a proper white wedding.
(b) Max says that they should have gotten married at his home.
(c) Max says that Teddy was too young to be married.
(d) Max says he is disappointed that he wasn't invited.

13. In reminiscing after lunch, what does Max refer to Jessie as?
(a) A tigress
(b) An angel
(c) A tart
(d) A "slutbitch of a wife"

14. When Teddy comes downstairs after his father and brothers have come home from the gym, what does Max ask him?
(a) If he's leaving soon
(b) If he will put out the fire in the fireplace
(c) If he is going to fight his brothers
(d) If he's going to pay rent on the room he's using

15. How many children does Ruth have?
(a) Three
(b) None
(c) Two
(d) One

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Max collapse after he verbally abuses Ruth for the first time?

2. After chastising Teddy for bringing Ruth into his house, who does Max ask to throw Ruth and Teddy out?

3. After Ruth tells Lenny where she was born, where does Max tell Joey he needs to go?

4. After lunch, Max abruptly turns his attention from reminiscing to Sam. Who does he compare Sam to?

5. When Ruth says she was different before she and Teddy were married, what does Teddy say.?

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