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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After vowing to be free with his mother and Sabina present, what does Henry try to do to Mr. Antrobus?
(a) Strangle him.
(b) Hit him.
(c) Tackle him.
(d) Shoot him.

2. Fitzpatrick says that the stand-ins are going to portray the hours of the night as portrayed by whom?
(a) Artists.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Musicians.

3. Fitzpatrick appears and says that several actors have been taken ill with what?
(a) The swine flu.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) The flu.
(d) Chicken pox.

4. Who tells Gladys and Mrs. Antrobus that the war is over?
(a) A passerby.
(b) Henry.
(c) Mr. Antrobus.
(d) Sabina.

5. Henry vows to be free even if he has to do what?
(a) Kill everyone to do it.
(b) Die to do it.
(c) Leave everyone to do it.
(d) Disappear to do it.

6. What does Henry say filled the emptiness inside him?
(a) The desire to kill.
(b) The desire to hate.
(c) The desire to love.
(d) The desire to destroy.

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

8. How does Henry describe his childhood?
(a) Fabulous and filled with love.
(b) Happy and demanding.
(c) Awful and deprived.
(d) Strange and weird.

9. What union does the stagehand threaten to report Sabina to if she doesn't play the scene properly?
(a) Entertainment Union.
(b) Stageworkers' Union.
(c) Employment Union.
(d) Actors' Union.

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

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

12. As Henry goes out in Act 3, Part 2, who does he apologize to?
(a) Gladys.
(b) Sabina.
(c) Mrs. Antrobus.
(d) Mr. Antrobus.

13. The stage directions for Act 3, Part 2 describe Henry as being a representation of what?
(a) Strong spiteful evil.
(b) Spiteful evil.
(c) Unreconciled idiotic evil.
(d) Strong unreconciled evil.

14. What rumbles distantly as Mrs. Antrobus appears in Act 2, Part 2?
(a) The sea.
(b) The earth.
(c) Thunder.
(d) The wind.

15. Who says that Henry's story in Act 3 is not true?
(a) Mrs. Antrobus.
(b) Mr. Antrobus.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Sabina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sabina do when Mr. Antrobus begins to organize animals on the ship?

2. How do Mrs. Antrobus and Gladys appear on the stage in the beginning of Act 3?

3. What is Mr. Antrobus wearing when he appears in Act 3, Part 2?

4. As Act 3 begins, where is it set?

5. When Gladys runs away from Mr. Antrobus, Sabina tells him not to worry and that it will all be forgotten in how long?

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