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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 the Prologue in The House of Blue Leaves reveal about Artie?
(a) He is a talent scout.
(b) He is a songwriter.
(c) He is a dancer.
(d) He is a director.

2. What does Bunny stuff into her boots in order to keep her feet warm?
(a) Cashmere.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Wool.
(d) Steamed towels.

3. What does Bunny call Artie's songs in order to cheer him up?
(a) Works of art.
(b) Classics.
(c) Hallmarks.
(d) Beautiful.

4. What is Bananas worried that the new house Artie has found for her to live in has?
(a) Asbestos.
(b) Shock treatments.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Rats.

5. How does the symbolic color introduced in the Prologue represent the characters in the play?
(a) As being unstable.
(b) As being angry.
(c) As being sad.
(d) As being imprisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bananas emerges from the bedroom, what does her conversation with Artie reveal about Artie?

2. What does Artie say happened to him after he rescued Bananas from a rooftop in the middle of winter?

3. Where does Bunny go when Artie asks her to leave?

4. What does the character on stage at the beginning of the play repeatedly try to get the audience to do?

5. Where does Artie tell Billy he met Bunny for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Act II, Scene I, Part II farcical?

2. Why do the nuns and Ronnie rush to Corrinna when she announces she has two tickets to see the Pope at Yankee Stadium?

3. What does Artie's casual cruelty toward Bananas signify?

4. What does the audience learn about the Prologue in Act I, Scene I?

5. Why are all of the characters acting so desperately by the end of Act II, Scene I, Part II?

6. What does Artie comment to the audience at the beginning of Act II, Scene I, Part II regarding Bunny and Bananas?

7. How does Corrinna die by the end of Act II, Scene I, Part II?

8. Does Artie intend to kill Bananas at the end of the play?

9. Why is the Pope addressing the United Nations?

10. Bananas asks Billy to stay with her in the apartment, but what does Billy suggest instead?

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