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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 do Artie and Bunny argue over when she brings up their friend Billy in California?
(a) Where Bananas will go.
(b) Who will pay for the tickets.
(c) Who is closer to Billy.
(d) If they should stay with Billy or in a hotel.

2. What does Bunny promise to do for Artie when they reach California?
(a) Sing for him.
(b) Help him write his songs.
(c) Cook meals for him.
(d) Give him massages.

3. When is the title of the play mentioned during Act I, Part II?
(a) When Bunny suggests that they stay with Billy in California.
(b) When Bananas says the bars can be taken from the windows.
(c) When Artie sees that Bananas has a chance of getting better.
(d) When Artie describes the house Bananas can live at.

4. Where is Artie's apartment located in New York?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Queens.
(d) Manhattan.

5. In the dream Artie explains to Bananas, what do both he and the Pope do to her?
(a) Rejects her.
(b) Abandons her.
(c) Insults her.
(d) Hurts her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who looks out of the bedroom at Artie and Bunny while they are talking?

3. What does Artie do in the Prologue of The House of Blue Leaves that is a convention of plays first introduced here?

4. Where does Artie tell Bananas that he and Bunny are moving to?

5. How many functions does the Prologue in The House of Blue Leaves foreshadow throughout the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sign of gentleness toward Bananas does Artie have in Act I, Part II?

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

3. What is Ronnie's bomb a symbol for?

4. How does Bunny convince Artie to call his friend Billy in California?

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

6. What does Ronnie believe about all of the people he has encountered in his life?

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

8. What is Ronnie dressed in when we first see him in Act I, Part I?

9. When Artie steps into the spotlight at the end of the play, what does he sing about?

10. What does Bunny tell the audience was the best part of the war movie Corrinna was in?

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