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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Artie's last name?
(a) Shaughnessy.
(b) Sheen.
(c) Shannon.
(d) Sherwood.

2. What will all of the characters do throughout the play that Artie does in the Prologue?
(a) Have a spotlight.
(b) Speak to the audience.
(c) Play an instrument.
(d) Be alone on stage.

3. Where does Bunny go when Artie asks her to leave?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The car.
(c) The store.
(d) The kitchen.

4. What does Bunny claim that Artie was afraid of until he met her?
(a) Life.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Monotony.
(d) Success.

5. Who looks out of the bedroom at Artie and Bunny while they are talking?
(a) Pope Paul.
(b) A military intelligence officer.
(c) Ronnie.
(d) Bananas.

6. When does the play begin?
(a) Halfway through the first scene.
(b) When the audience is quiet.
(c) After the audience sits down.
(d) As the audience is finding their seats.

7. What idea does Artie's roughness with Bananas reinforce?
(a) He is in opposition to the war.
(b) He is a man on the edge.
(c) The intolerance toward mental illness.
(d) The increase of domestic violence.

8. What is the symbolic colorization introduced in the Prologue of the play a result of?
(a) Committing a crime.
(b) Lack of love.
(c) Becoming depressed.
(d) Losing grip on reality.

9. What color is symbolically introduced in the Prologue of The House of Blue Leaves?
(a) Gray.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Orange.

10. What does Bunny want Bananas to do if she were to move to the country in the guide books?
(a) Get better mentally.
(b) Get surgery.
(c) Get a boyfriend.
(d) Get a divorce.

11. Artie agrees to see the Pope with Bunny on one condition. What is that condition?
(a) She sing for him.
(b) She spend the night with him.
(c) She cook for him.
(d) She gives him some money.

12. What could the Pope be a symbol of for Artie and the rest of the characters as the play progresses?
(a) Hope.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

13. When Artie rescued Bananas from the rooftop in the middle of winter, what does he say happened to their relationship?
(a) He got her help.
(b) He gave up on her.
(c) He took care of her.
(d) He started to love her again.

14. Who could Bananas' dream be a foreshadowing of?
(a) Religion.
(b) Bunny.
(c) Artie.
(d) Ronnie.

15. What is Ronnie dressed in when he enters Artie's apartment at the beginning of Act I?
(a) Priest's robe.
(b) Doctor's coat.
(c) Police uniform.
(d) Army fatigues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bananas pretend to be when Artie fixes her breakfast?

2. What does Artie tell Bananas that he and Bunny are going to do?

3. What does Artie suggest Bananas do in order to make her prayers come true?

4. What thematic aspect of the play will Artie's characteristics effect as the piece progresses?

5. Why does Bananas tell Artie not to be disrespectful at the beginning of Act I, Part II?

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