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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. Lewis and Warnie joke about Joy's what?
(a) Nationality.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Love of books.
(d) Grammar.

2. It is revealed that Joy is what?
(a) A professor.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A poet.
(d) A doctor.

3. Who is with Lewis as the scene opens?
(a) Bill.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Warnie.
(d) Riley.

4. What does Lewis ask Joy about her return to America?
(a) If she'll go to the house she shared with her husband.
(b) If she'll go on a book tour.
(c) When she'll be returning to see him.
(d) How she plans to travel to America.

5. What does Joy ask of Lewis?
(a) To be her friend.
(b) To let her move in.
(c) To care for Douglas.
(d) To forget he ever met her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Joy and Lewis joke about?

2. What does Joy's son want to do?

3. What is Lewis doing as the scene opens?

4. What is Lewis doing when Warnie enters the room?

5. Why is Joy marrying Lewis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lewis say about pain, suffering, and love? What benefit does he believe that suffering has?

2. Why is everyone cautious in this scene? What are they afraid of?

3. What do Lewis and Joy discuss before she leaves? What does he ask her? What does Joy ask of Lewis?

4. How do Lewis and Warnie feel about Joy's impending visit to their home? Why is she coming?

5. What do Lewis and Joy joke about? Why do they joke about this topic?

6. What does Lewis talk to Douglas about? On what topic does Lewis end the play?

7. What letter does Lewis receive? What does the scene reveal about the sender?

8. What does Lewis tell Joy? How does she respond?

9. What do the two brothers joke about? What do they decide to do about the letter's request?

10. What is Joy's condition like? How is she feeling?

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