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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ethel hand Norman a bucket?
(a) To go pick more berries.
(b) To draw some water from the well.
(c) To water the indoor plants.
(d) To fix the handle.

2. What separates the kitchen from the living room?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A pocket door.
(c) A swinging door.
(d) A bead curtin.

3. What does Ethel plan to do with the berries she's picked?
(a) Make shortcake for dessert.
(b) Take them to an ill neighbor.
(c) Freeze them.
(d) Make jam.

4. What happens to the package in question #27?
(a) It is delivered to the wrong address.
(b) It gets wet when the delivery boy falls in the water.
(c) It is moldy and is thrown out.
(d) Nothing; the package is delivered intact.

5. What does Ethel find intriguing about Miss Appley and Miss Tate?
(a) That they have lived into their 90s.
(b) That they have been together for so many years and must have had a great love affair.
(c) That they had both been asked for marriage by the same man and each in turn had said no.
(d) That they are identical twins and still are impossible to tell apart.

6. Why has the person called?
(a) No one is on the phone.
(b) Because Norman called that person.
(c) To tell Norman that he was in the hospital.
(d) To say that she would be there by dinner.

7. What does Norman do when Ethel and Charlie are discussing Chelsea?
(a) Gets up and goes outside.
(b) Tries to interest Charlie in a discussion of baseball.
(c) Cleans his shotgun.
(d) Ties flys for fishing.

8. What is another thing Charlie brought with him?
(a) Two freshly-caught bass.
(b) A letter from Chelsea.
(c) An armful of firewood.
(d) An invitation from his mother.

9. How could Norman's memory best be described?
(a) He often forgets things he once could easily recall.
(b) His memory has never been good, but it is getting better.
(c) He is totally senile and doesn't remember who someone is from one hour to the next.
(d) He still has a photographic memory.

10. Who liked Chelsea when he was young?
(a) Chester.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Bill.
(d) Jonathan.

11. Whose boat pulls up to the dock?
(a) The neighbor's.
(b) No one's.
(c) Charlie's.
(d) The police chief's.

12. Who is knocking on the door?
(a) Chelsea.
(b) Billy Ray.
(c) No one.
(d) Norman's wife.

13. Who is coming with Chelsea on her visit?
(a) Her best friend from high school.
(b) Her two poodles.
(c) Her new boyfriend.
(d) No one.

14. Where is Chelsea going after stopping to see her parents?
(a) To Disneyworld in Florida.
(b) The Grand Tetons.
(c) Europe.
(d) China.

15. Where are the bedrooms in this house?
(a) One big room serves as the living room and sleeping area.
(b) Upstairs.
(c) On the east end of the first floor.
(d) In a separate mother-in-law cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many summers have Norman and Ethel Thayer been coming to this setting?

2. How many acts does this play have?

3. How old was Miss Appley on her last birthday?

4. Why does Norman pick up the telephone?

5. Who is the person in the picture on the mantle that Norman is studying?

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