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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Webb say she wants to do before her daughter gets married, but does not think she will have the chance to do?
(a) Kiss her daughter.
(b) Speak to George.
(c) Thank all the guests.
(d) Talk to her daughter.

2. What does the stage manager urge the audience to do while George and Emily prepare to tell their story?
(a) Kiss someone they love.
(b) Fill their hearts and minds with loving thoughts.
(c) Remember what it was like to be in love.
(d) Pretend this is their story.

3. What does the stage manager say everyone in town is doing at the end of the play?
(a) Remembering.
(b) Living.
(c) Dying.
(d) Sleeping.

4. Who is to be buried at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Simon Stimwell.
(b) Emily.
(c) Wally.
(d) Mrs. Gibbs.

5. What does Emily say just before she gets married?
(a) She would rather things remain the way they are.
(b) She hates George and wishes she were dead.
(c) She loves George.
(d) She refuses to live far from her father.

6. How did Wally die?
(a) Disease.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Car accident.
(d) War wound.

7. What is the first actual character that the stage manager plays?
(a) Mr. Millet.
(b) Mr. Mulligan.
(c) Mr. Miller.
(d) Mr. Morgan.

8. How did Simon Stimwell die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Disease.
(c) Car accident.
(d) War wound.

9. What does George say he does not want to do just before he gets married?
(a) Grow old.
(b) Go to school
(c) Make his love live in poverty.
(d) Get married.

10. Why does Emily choose to not re-live her life?
(a) No one around her cherishes life the way they should.
(b) It was too painful.
(c) She was too eager to move on.
(d) She knows too much.

11. What do the row of chairs on stage indicate in the first scene in Act 3?
(a) A class system.
(b) Money.
(c) People.
(d) Graves.

12. What is the second real character that the stage manager plays?
(a) The ring bearer.
(b) The minister.
(c) The decorator.
(d) The mailman.

13. What is Emily's natural feeling about men?
(a) They are not people to trust.
(b) They should be perfect.
(c) They are here to protect women.
(d) They are all corrupt.

14. Who does the stage manager say are witnesses to the marriage between George and Emily?
(a) The world.
(b) The audience.
(c) God and angels.
(d) The town.

15. What is George's natural feeling about women?
(a) They are kinder than men.
(b) They need to be protected.
(c) They are naturally more good than men.
(d) They are too quick to trust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the stage manager ask Emily while playing his first actual character?

2. What does George buy for Emily during their chat after the Student Council elections?

3. What does the stage manager say we all know at the beginning of Act 3?

4. What office in the student council did George hold?

5. What do Emily and Mrs. Gibbs say about the living when George enters the cemetery?

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