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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 Felix do the last time he is in a great deal of pain?
(a) Falls down the stairs.
(b) Drive into a store.
(c) Falls asleep at the wheel.
(d) Collapses on the floor.

2. What are the poker players worried about in the first scene?
(a) Felix is missing.
(b) Someone is cheating.
(c) The ceiling is leaking.
(d) Felix has an argument with Oscar.

3. What does Felix make his wife do?
(a) Cook the same thing every night.
(b) Clean three times per day.
(c) Stay at home all the time.
(d) Keep an expense book.

4. Why does Frances call?
(a) To tell Felix his clothes are on the curb.
(b) To find out when Felix is picking up his clothes.
(c) To ask Felix to come home.
(d) To try to work things out with Felix.

5. What are the characters playing when the play begins?
(a) Poker.
(b) Cribbage.
(c) Hearts.
(d) Spades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is The Odd Couple set?

2. What does Felix finally reveal to his friends?

3. Where does Vinnie say he is going the morning after the first poker game?

4. Why is Oscar's wife angry with him?

5. What garbage dominates the apartment at the beginning of the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the first scene of the second act opens, what does Felix do to Oscar's apartment?

2. Who is not worried about Felix at the beginning of the play, and why?

3. Why do you think the poker players banter back and forth so much during the first poker game?

4. What embarrassing thing does Oscar do when the Pigeon sisters arrive, and what does this suggest about Oscar?

5. Why is Speed upset with the state of the apartment during the second poker game?

6. Why does Felix bring the Pigeon sisters to Oscar's apartment at the end of the play?

7. What are each of the Pigeon sisters' marriages like, and why do they end?

8. What does Oscar tell the other poker players to do in the last line of the play, and what does this show about Oscar?

9. Why is this play called "The Odd Couple"?

10. When the other poker players start to complain to Oscar about Felix, how does Oscar respond?

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