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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the Telegraph Boy can come into the house, Sabina and Mrs. Antrobus do what?
(a) Clean the house.
(b) Lock the windows.
(c) Grab weapons.
(d) Blockade the door.

2. What reason does Gladys give for wearing makeup?
(a) Because it makes her look pretty.
(b) Because she wants to.
(c) Because other girls do it.
(d) Because the boys like it.

3. When Mrs. Antrobus allows the Telegraph Boy into the house, she asks him if he has something to do. What is it?
(a) Keep them warm.
(b) Open a message.
(c) Cook over the fire.
(d) Light the fire.

4. Mr. Antrobus is introduced, during the slide show, as the inventor of what?
(a) The car.
(b) The stove.
(c) The house.
(d) The wheel.

5. What does Mrs. Antrobus quote while Henry quotes the multiplication tables?
(a) Biblical story or repentance.
(b) Biblical story of flood.
(c) Biblical story of creation.
(d) Biblical story of destruction.

6. The story of Mr. Antrobus leading a handful to survive in the face of the rain's destruction alludes to what story in the Bible?
(a) Adam and Eve.
(b) Cain and Abel.
(c) Noah's Ark.
(d) Sodom and Gomorrah.

7. When Gladys returns with Mr. Antrobus' slippers, she begs him to do what?
(a) Praise her just once.
(b) Look at her just once.
(c) Teach her something just once.
(d) Sing to her just once.

8. What does the slide show say Mrs. Antrobus invented?
(a) The jacket.
(b) The shoe.
(c) The apron.
(d) The pot.

9. Homer shares his name with a poet from what time period?
(a) Ancient Greece.
(b) Ancient Egypt.
(c) Ancient America.
(d) Ancient China.

10. Sabina won a beauty contest judged by whom?
(a) Homer.
(b) Mr. Antrobus.
(c) The society.
(d) Judge Moses.

11. Sabina implies that Henry hit his older brother with what?
(a) A rock.
(b) A lamp.
(c) A knife.
(d) A ball.

12. What occupation does Mr. Antrobus give to Judge Moses?
(a) Lawmaker.
(b) Law writer.
(c) Law breaker.
(d) Law historian.

13. Mrs. Antrobus says that she does not believe that sleeping with a window open is what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Painful.
(d) Healthy.

14. What word does the Fortune Teller use to describe the flooding rain that is in humanity's future?
(a) A deluge.
(b) A downpour.
(c) A sizeable.
(d) A laughable.

15. What food does Sabina make to feed the refugees?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Hamburgers.
(d) Hot dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry's old name that two of his teachers called him, is what?

2. According to the stage directions, how old is the Telegraph Boy?

3. Where does Mrs. Antrobus send the children so that she can talk to Mr. Antrobus alone?

4. Mr. Antrobus says that they are all covered in what, as the result of Henry's actions with the stone?

5. Mrs. Antrobus orders Henry to cheer up his father by reciting what?

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