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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What word best describes the character of Nancy?
(a) Insincere
(b) Brave
(c) Opinionated
(d) Forthright
2. What is Charlie's ideal life?
(a) To travel the globe
(b) To stay close to home
(c) To live on a ranch
(d) To become a writer
3. What had the women in the 1970s been doing with their time prior to the social movements?
(a) Looking for a husband
(b) Developing a career
(c) Mothering
(d) Accounting
4. What is the best description of the twig that Nancy chose as defense?
(a) Inadequate
(b) Tiny
(c) Heavy
(d) Thorny
5. What kind of wife does Charlie tell Nancy she is?
(a) A cunning wife
(b) A happy wife
(c) A resentful wife
(d) A good wife
6. How does Nancy's choice in twigs make her husband feel?
(a) He is thrilled
(b) He is indifferent
(c) He is proud
(d) He is enraged
7. What can the combination of opportunity and confusion in the 1970s can best be described as?
(a) Hypocrisy
(b) An invention by men
(c) A lie
(d) A double edged sword
8. How does Nancy describe her husband at the end of Act 1 while in submission to the lizards?
(a) Dour
(b) Cowardly
(c) Brave
(d) Happy
9. What are Charlie and Nancy facing as they enter their new stage in life?
(a) Health problems
(b) Financial ruin
(c) Childless depression
(d) Empty nest syndrome
10. What is Charlie in the mood for after lunch?
(a) A long walk
(b) A nap
(c) Yoga
(d) A light swim
11. What is created in Charlie and Nancy's marriage as a result of miscommunication?
(a) Love
(b) Tension
(c) Anger
(d) Violence
12. As the play opens, what have Charlie and Nancy finished enjoying?
(a) A long run
(b) A picnic lunch
(c) Feeding the seagulls
(d) A walk on the shore line
13. When did Nancy suspect Charlie of having an affair?
(a) Never
(b) After 10 years of marriage
(c) After 20 years of marriage
(d) After their 1st year of marriage
14. What stage in life are Charlie and Nancy entering?
(a) Career
(b) Adulthood
(c) Retirement
(d) Parenthood
15. What does Nancy's sarcastic validation of Charlie's merits as a good husband and father lead to?
(a) A long walk on the beach
(b) A dip in the water
(c) An argument
(d) A sexual escapade
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the theme of Act 1?
2. Where does Charlie want to retire?
3. What happens when the lizards move forward towards Charlie and Nancy?
4. What do the jets overhead help to identify?
5. What scientific theory is addressed in Act 1?
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