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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 happens when Visitor tries to open the suitcase?
(a) It pops open.
(b) It explodes.
(c) It makes noises.
(d) It beings to leak water.

2. How does Woman prevent Visitor from leaving her house?
(a) She begs her to stay.
(b) She locks the door.
(c) She asks Visitor's opinion of her husband.
(d) She calls her a name.

3. Who does Woman say is in the suitcase?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her husband's ancestors.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her child.

4. When does the suitcase finally open?
(a) When the magic words are spoken.
(b) After a crowbar is used.
(c) In August.
(d) When Woman asks Visitor to take it with her.

5. What, in 'Suitcase', does Visitor ask Woman if she prepared for her husband?
(a) Supper.
(b) His bed.
(c) Lunch.
(d) His clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Visitor try to spray the suitcase with?

2. What are the first sounds that emerge from the suitcase?

3. Who does the suitcase in the play 'Suitcase' belong to?

4. What does the offstage voice warn the women not to forget in 'Suitcase'?

5. After asking Visitor if she can keep a secret, what does Woman bring into the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Boxer tell Mr. Kimura he is confident in prior to the fight?

2. What does Visitor use to try and open the suitcase? What happens when Visitor tries to open the suitcase?

3. Who says "Once again, a man turned into a stick and vanished" and when in the play is this line spoken?

4. Does Boxer win or lose the fight at the end of the play?

5. What is Woman going to make her husband for dinner?

6. What speech does the suitcase make that the end of the play?

7. What does the presence of Man and Woman from Hell suggest about the man's death?

8. Why does Visitor think it would be difficult to open the suitcase? What does she realize upon a better look?

9. What does Boxer want Mr. Kimura to arrange and why?

10. Why does Woman not want to open the suitcase? Why does Visitor think she has not opened it?

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