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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 is Ann's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Attorney.
(d) Nurse.

2. What can John and Dudley tell about Ann?
(a) She has had a hard life.
(b) She is not very bright.
(c) She wants to marry Jeff.
(d) She is very accomplished.

3. What noise startles Grandma Wilhemina?
(a) Someone coming into the house.
(b) A gunshot.
(c) A car backfiring.
(d) A scream.

4. What time period serves as the setting of THE RIVER NIGER?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1950s.

5. What does Mattie say happened to her on the subway?
(a) She was mugged.
(b) She almost fainted.
(c) She got off at the wrong station.
(d) She lost her tokens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dudley tell John to do for Ann?

2. Who owns the brownstone where Grandma Wilhemina lives?

3. What falls out of John's pocket?

4. What is John's liquor of choice?

5. What do Jeff and Ann do after Jeff comes home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the reactions of Mattie and Grandma when Jeff announces his plans to marry Ann.

2. What does Gail ask Jeff to do regarding Mo's life direction?

3. Where does John say he has been for a week and what was he doing?

4. What is Grandma's opinion of Ann?

5. Why can Jeff not try on his Air Force uniform when John asks him to?

6. What does Mattie consider to be a big problem in her family?

7. Who is Dr. Dudley Stanton and how is he introduced into the play?

8. What are the police demands when they surround the house?

9. What happens after Ann suggests that she move into a hotel?

10. What are John's dying words to Mattie?

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