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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. How is Speed's personality best described?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Cranky.
(c) Witty.
(d) Acerbic.

2. During Oscar and Felix's first conversation alone, Felix jumps up and does what?
(a) Hops on one leg.
(b) Runs from the room.
(c) Screams.
(d) Begins to loudly sob.

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

4. What malady does Felix first complain about in the second scene?
(a) Charlie horse.
(b) Massive headaches.
(c) Neck spasms.
(d) A broken finger.

5. What do the other poker players do as they leave Oscar's apartment?
(a) Snicker.
(b) Try to get Felix to come to a bar.
(c) Offer to help Felix any way they can.
(d) Tell Felix to get over it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Felix's crisis from earlier in the day averted?

2. What does Oscar do for a living?

3. Oscar says that Felix is the only man in the world with:

4. When Felix is locked in a bathroom overnight, what does he do?

5. What major event happens to Oscar before the play starts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the condition of Oscar's apartment at the beginning of the play. What does this say about Oscar?

2. Why do Oscar and his friends watch Felix very closely when he first arrives?

3. How does Felix ruin the date with the Pigeon sisters?

4. What do the Pigeon sisters look like, and how do they act?

5. Why is Felix reluctant to go on a date, and why does he eventually agree to do it?

6. How many rooms does Oscar's apartment have, and what does this show?

7. What are the poker players generally trying to do when Felix arrives?

8. How does Felix change the nature of the poker game the second time they play?

9. When Felix and Oscar argue in the second act, why is Oscar upset with Felix?

10. When Felix says that he is nervous about the date, how does Oscar respond?

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