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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 does Chelsea greet her mother?
(a) With a demand that she make some of her special tea.
(b) With indifference.
(c) Her mother is not there; she's gone up to change.
(d) Warmly.

2. For what does Billy go into the kitchen?
(a) To find his dad.
(b) To make pancakes for everyone as a surprise.
(c) A sack of cookies.
(d) A glass of orange juice.

3. Why does Ethel go to get a rake?
(a) To rake the back yard.
(b) To try to reach something with it in the shed.
(c) To shoo some chickens out of the garden.
(d) To dislodge a spider from the ceiling.

4. What do Bill and Norman talk about mostly at the beginning of their conversation?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Baseball.
(c) The New York Stock Exchange.
(d) Chelsea.

5. What song does Ethel sing?
(a) Love Me Tender.
(b) Camp Koochakiyi song.
(c) Camp Ticochee song.
(d) Camp Oolaooda song.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Norman's reaction to Chelsea's response?

2. What does Ethel lament about when Norman comes into the room?

3. How does Chelsea respond to Norman's attempts to choose the topic of conversation?

4. Why does Ethel think it's going to rain that day?

5. Who does Norman tell Billy not to awaken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Norman tell Ethel she shouldn't do in front of Chelsea and her boyfriend and how does this brief exchange between Norman and Ethel demonstrate a difference in their personality?

2. Describe Bill's appearance and Billy and Norman returning from downstairs and how does this give readers a sense who Bill is?

3. What can be inferred by the fact that Norman calls Billy by the name Chelsea from time to time?

4. Describe the opening scene in Act 2, Scene 1.

5. Referring back to your answer in question #25, venture a guess as to why Chelsea's boyfriends were timid around Norman.

6. Describe Ethel's concern and role in that day's fishing venture.

7. How does the first interaction between Chelsea and her parents show the reader the relationship between Chelsea and each of her parents?

8. Describe the interaction between Norman and Bill after the others have gone outside.

9. What regret does Norman express and what may that regret foreshadow?

10. What theme is illustrated by what Ethel does right after Norman and Billy leave?

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