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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 is Bananas doing in the dream she explains to Artie that she frequently has?
(a) She walks hand in hand with Artie.
(b) She cries all day.
(c) She kills Bunny.
(d) She flees the house.

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

3. What is insinuated that Artie will attempt to do as the play unfolds?
(a) Find his love.
(b) Leave his town.
(c) Turn his fantasies into reality.
(d) Kill his enemy.

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

5. What will be taken away from Artie in the final moments of the play?
(a) His dreams.
(b) His desire.
(c) His love.
(d) His money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the audience become after the Prologue of The House of Blue Leaves?

2. What will be revealed about Artie over time as the play progresses?

3. Who does Artie address while he is talking about the Pope?

4. Who could Bananas' dream be a foreshadowing of?

5. What kind of character is Artie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the condition Artie gives Bunny if she wants him to accompany her to see the Pope?

2. Billy explains to Artie that it is better when he imagines Artie in the audience than for Artie to actually be there. Is this reasonable?

3. What does Corrinna say to the audience when she arrives in Act II, Scene I, Part II?

4. What does "breaking the fourth wall" and speaking to the audience achieve?

5. What act does Ronnie's desire to use the bomb foreshadow?

6. What does the color blue function as in the Prologue?

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

8. Is Artie a sympathetic character?

9. What is noted in the Prologue that will happen with Artie's dreams?

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

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