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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Norman doing when Act 1, Scene 2 opens?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Riding his exercise bike.
(c) Talking to Chelsea on the telephone.
(d) Reading the classified ads.

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

3. What does the operator ask Norman?
(a) What is the hospital's name where is brother is a patient.
(b) What is his phone number.
(c) What is Chelsea's cell phone number.
(d) Nothing because Norman does not talk with the operator.

4. Why do Chelsea and her boyfriend leave young Billy with Norman and Ethel Thayer?
(a) They are going to Europe.
(b) He needs to be taught how to behave around older people.
(c) His camp canceled their summer program.
(d) He doesn't have any grandparents so wants them to be that to him.

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

6. What is the best description of the living room?
(a) Filled to overflowing with junk.
(b) Disorganized.
(c) Tidy and organized.
(d) Austere.

7. In answer to Norman's question as to why Charlie never married Chelsea, what does Charlie reply?
(a) Chelsea was pregnant by another guy.
(b) Charlie was never that interested in Chelsea.
(c) Norman wouldn't let Charlie marry Chelsea.
(d) Chelsea hated Charlie.

8. Who does Ethel invite in for coffee?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) William.
(c) The police chief.
(d) Charlie.

9. Where is Chelsea living now?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Florida.
(c) New England.
(d) California.

10. How old is Norman?
(a) 79.
(b) 65.
(c) 60.
(d) 94.

11. What happened to Miss Appley last week?
(a) She died.
(b) She feel off a ladder.
(c) She drove to New Hampshire.
(d) She gave a speech at the Daughters of the Revolution luncheon.

12. When does Norman express interest in the contents of Chelsea's letter?
(a) He never expresses any interest in the contents of her letter.
(b) When Ethel announces that her new boyfriend is a dentist.
(c) When he learns that Chelsea inheirited his estranged brother's estate.
(d) When he hears that Chelsea had major surgery.

13. What is the job of the character Ethel meets in the woods?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Physician.
(c) Lumberjack.
(d) Mail carrier.

14. What did Norman think about Chelsea's swimming abilities.?
(a) He thought she was Olympic material.
(b) He criticized her abilities when she was on the swim team.
(c) He was happy that she was a superb diver.
(d) He thought she shouldn't be on the swim team.

15. What seems sad to Charlie?
(a) That Chelsea never wanted to marry Charlie.
(b) That Chelsea lost her only son when he was three.
(c) That Norman has to be very careful of his heart.
(d) That Chelsea has never had any children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Norman say he will be on his next birthday?

2. What happened to Chelsea's husband?

3. What is Charlie's response to Ethel's suggestion?

4. Whose boat pulls up to the dock?

5. Why does Norman pick up the telephone?

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