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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Barrow suggest that Ann does when Jim becomes semi-conscious?
(a) Call the nurse immediately.
(b) Question him.
(c) Lecture him.
(d) Call the doctor immediately.

2. How does Jim respond to the new job interview?
(a) He is scared.
(b) He is skeptical.
(c) He is excited.
(d) He is unresponsive.

3. What is Dr. Bellman unable to give Jim as Act 2, Scene 2 ends?
(a) Hope of being released.
(b) The people behind his prolonged stay.
(c) The information they have collected while monitoring him.
(d) A reason for his release.

4. How many days have passed since the previous scene as the third scene in Act 1 begins?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

5. How does Jim initially respond to Dr. Bellman's request?
(a) He is silent.
(b) He is nervous.
(c) He is annoyed.
(d) He is rude.

6. What did the letter that Jim wrote indicate?
(a) His intent to divorce Ann.
(b) His intent to take his own life.
(c) His intent to leave town.
(d) His intent to get help for his problems.

7. What does Jim tell Dr. Bellman that Ann needed?
(a) A vacation.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) Money.
(d) A job.

8. What does Jim inform Ann of in the third scene of Act 1?
(a) That he would rather she not call for a while.
(b) That he needs a vacation.
(c) That he will not be returning home.
(d) That he will be returning home.

9. What does Jim learn about the monitoring system from the other patients in Act 2?
(a) Only their words are being listened to.
(b) The doctors choose which patients to monitor.
(c) Everything they say and do is being observed.
(d) Only their actions are being observed.

10. What job does Jim currently hold?
(a) A teaching job.
(b) A manual labor job.
(c) He is unemployed.
(d) An office job.

11. What does Mr. Fleming give to Grosberg?
(a) A bottle.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Money.
(d) A pencil.

12. What does Mr. Fleming tell Jim about the convalescent ward?
(a) Patients leave there more quickly than they think.
(b) Patients there do not want to leave.
(c) Patients never leave there.
(d) Patients do not leave there as quickly as they would like.

13. What reason does Ann give for why Jim might not be ready to leave for his job interview?
(a) He will not get the job.
(b) His eyes do not focus properly.
(c) There is no job interview.
(d) The interview is too far away.

14. What does Jim reveal to the doctor about Ann in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) She is cunning and manipulative.
(b) She is crazy.
(c) She is forgetful.
(d) She is kind and loyal.

15. What does Dr. Bellman give Jim at the end of the second scene in Act 2?
(a) Medicine.
(b) A sanity test.
(c) A scholastic test.
(d) A physical examination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 2 open?

2. What does Dr. Barrow ask Ann about Jim's letter?

3. Among the various different patient types Jim meets in the beginning of Act 2, how do some of them seem to him?

4. What does Jim refuse to discuss with Dr. Bellman in Act 2, Scene 2?

5. What time is it at the start of Act 1, Scene 2?

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