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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. According to Jim, how would all of the people he knows react to his death?
(a) They would be over it soon.
(b) They would be devastated.
(c) They would celebrate.
(d) They would not even realize it.

2. What does the doctor ask Jim when he first wakes up?
(a) His motives for suicide.
(b) The reason for his professional setbacks.
(c) His motives for separating with Ann.
(d) The reason for the type of pills he chose.

3. What does Jim ask Grosberg to do for him?
(a) Write a letter.
(b) Get a cigarette.
(c) Mail a letter.
(d) Take his cigarettes away.

4. What is likely to happen if a patient gets sent to "seven"?
(a) They will never leave.
(b) They will be transferred back to the psychiatric ward.
(c) They will be kept there indefinitely.
(d) They will be transferred to the state hospital.

5. What time is it at the start of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) 12:00 midnight.
(b) 12:00 noon.
(c) 2:00 in the afternoon.
(d) 2:00 in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Jim been depressed over?

2. What is the state of some of the other patients Jim encounters in Act 2, Scene 1?

3. What does Ann think about Charlotte?

4. According to Gregory, what is the patient's responsibility to prove?

5. Who is Miss Cardell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim tell Dr. Schlesinger about Ann, and how does the doctor respond?

2. What does Miss Wingate advise Jim of and why is it significant?

3. What is Jim's mood in the last scene of Act 2, and why does he feel that way?

4. How does the author use the scenery to match Jim's mood in the beginning of Act 1, Scene 3?

5. According to the doctors in the second scene of Act 3, how has Jim been behaving?

6. What does Jim learn from Miss Wingate about Ann at the end of Act 2, Scene 3?

7. How might Harry be able to help Jim, and why doesn't he?

8. What do the actions of the other patients in Act 2, Scene 5 indicate?

9. What does the time period in which the play was written have to do with why Jim felt the way that he did?

10. How does Jim respond to Dr. Bellman at the end of Act 2, Scene 4, and what do Ann and the doctor discuss?

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