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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sabina describe people without deep feelings?
(a) People of straw.
(b) People of toothpicks.
(c) People of mirrors.
(d) People of shallowness.

2. Sabina shouts that Mr. Antrobus is still inventing what?
(a) Concepts.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Things.
(d) Machines.

3. What color are Gladys' stockings?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

4. Who breaks character and tells everyone to stop the scene, reminding the actors about what happened the previous night?
(a) The Muses.
(b) Sabina.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Mrs. Antrobus.

5. How do Mrs. Antrobus and Gladys appear on the stage in the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Descending from above.
(b) Walking onto the stage from the audience.
(c) From a trapdoor in the floor.
(d) Walking onto the stage from backstage.

6. When Sabina tells Henry that his mother and sister love him, what does Henry say?
(a) That he just wants to go home.
(b) That he loves them too.
(c) That he doesn't care.
(d) That he doesn't want to be loved.

7. Who mocks Mr. Antrobus for being afraid of the storm?
(a) The on-lookers.
(b) The stagehands.
(c) The audience.
(d) The conventioneers.

8. Who does Sabina describe as the enemy in Act 3?
(a) Animals.
(b) Henry.
(c) Cain.
(d) Mr. Antrobus.

9. When Mrs. Antrobus takes one last look at Henry, who is thrashing in his sleep, where does she go?
(a) The front yard.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The back yard.
(d) Upstairs.

10. When the substitutes are ready, what does Sabina do?
(a) Restart at Act 2.
(b) Start the Act over again.
(c) Continue from where she left off.
(d) Pick up at a point in the future.

11. Henry says that he has no family and doesn't want what?
(a) Pity.
(b) A home.
(c) Peace of mind.
(d) A family.

12. Who takes Henry off the stage in Act 3, Part 2?
(a) Sabina.
(b) No one.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Mrs. Antrobus.

13. Henry does not want to live the _____, quiet life that he thinks Mr. Antrobus wants him to live.
(a) Polite.
(b) Serious.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Thoughtful.

14. When Sabina comments about how they are always starting over, and why should they bother, what does Mrs. Antrobus say?
(a) Too many people care about others to give up.
(b) Too many people have hope to give up.
(c) Too many people have fought and died to give up.
(d) Too many people are working too hard to give up.

15. Who urges Sabina to seduce Mr. Antrobus?
(a) Henry.
(b) The Fortune Teller.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Her spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sabina pull to get the set to start to right itself?

2. Mrs. Antrobus says that she married Mr. Antrobus for what reason?

3. Mr. Antrobus, upon hearing that Henry promises to go away, does what?

4. Fitzpatrick appears and says that several actors have been taken ill with what?

5. What does the Fortune Teller tell the conventioneers about their future?

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