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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 aspects of Joan and Deborah does Danny attack?
(a) He attacks their emotional instability.
(b) He attacks their sense of style.
(c) He attacks their taste in music.
(d) He attacks their ability to make love.

2. Danny can handle physical violence, but he cannot handle what?
(a) Emotional violence.
(b) Blood.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Shouting.

3. What place does Danny want Deborah to ask Bernie about?
(a) England.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Korea.
(d) Canada.

4. In what year does the play take place?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1985.

5. What are Deborah and Joan talking about in their apartment?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Finance.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie claim an old girlfriend wanted him to do with a bicycle chain?

2. Why does Bernie disagree with Danny about the woman's identity?

3. What does Joan say that upsets Bernie?

4. Where did Danny spot Deborah?

5. How does Bernie think he can attract women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan do when she discovers the children playing doctor?

2. What does Bernie say about Deborah's profession, upon meeting her for the first time?

3. What, in Act 2, do Joan and Deborah agree on about men?

4. What is Joan's reaction to Deborah's new relationship?

5. How do Bernie and Danny feel about the women on the beach?

6. What are Bernie's feelings about the Equal Rights Amendment?

7. How is Act 26, when Danny is awake and Deborah is asleep, juxtaposed with the other scenes where they are in bed together?

8. Who was King Farouk, according to Bernie?

9. What is Joan's reaction when Deborah informs her she is moving in with Danny?

10. As Danny helps Deborah move out of her apartment, how does Joan behave?

(see the answer keys)

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