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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. What do Amanda and Elyot know will inevitably happen?
(a) They will be forced out of their social standing.
(b) Elyot will have to pay Sibyl a lot of money.
(c) They will do nothing but argue.
(d) Victor and Sibyl will find them.

2. What causes the use of the triple code?
(a) Elyot turns off the record player.
(b) Elyot does not want to make love to Amanda at that moment.
(c) Amanda does not want to make love to Elyot at that moment.
(d) Amanda slams the piano shut on Elyot's fingers.

3. Who or what is Charles?
(a) Charles was Amanda and Elyot's old code to end all arguments.
(b) Charles is an admirer of Amanda's.
(c) Charles is a wooden snake Amanda once bought Elyot.
(d) Charles is Elyot's butler.

4. What reason is given for the first time Elyot struck Amanda during their marriage?
(a) Amanda struck Elyot first.
(b) Amanda tries to leave Elyot.
(c) Elyot caught Amanda with an admirer.
(d) Amanda's curling irons burned a hole in Elyot's new dressing gown.

5. What annoys Amanda the most about Elyot's reaction to her post-marriage affairs?
(a) Amanda is annoyed that Elyot is not listening.
(b) Amanda is annoyed that Elyot does not care.
(c) Amanda is annoyed that Elyot does not believe her.
(d) Amanda is annoyed that Elyot believes it is proper for men to be promiscuous, but not women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Louise?

2. Where does Act II take place?

3. What is Elyot wearing in Act II?

4. What does Amanda suggest she and Elyot do if their spouses find them?

5. When he starts getting angry, what does Amanda accuse Elyot of being?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Act II, does it appear that Elyot and Amanda have been getting along? How can the reader tell?

2. What do the reactions of Victor and Sibyl to the spectacle of Amanda and Elyot fighting suggest about their personalities?

3. Why are Amanda and Elyot reluctant to discuss another marriage?

4. Why does it seem that Elyot and Amanda are able to forgive each other silently during their time-outs?

5. Elyot muses that he and Amanda are clearly in love after they have a small tiff. Amanda protests that he should not sound so bitter about the fact. Why would Elyot sound bitter or resigned when saying that he and Amanda are in love?

6. Is Amanda being honest when she says she would never have been happy with Victor and how is it apparent?

7. What are Amanda and Elyot arguing about when Elyot first calls "Sollocks?"

8. Why does Amanda call out "triple Sollocks?"

9. What sets off the very first argument of Act II?

10. What do Victor and Sibyl do at the end of Act II when they see Amanda and Elyot fighting?

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