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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darkness falls, the other characters disappear, and what happens?
(a) Mr. Antrobus does nothing.
(b) Mr. Antrobus begins to sing.
(c) Mr. Antrobus ends his speech.
(d) Mr. Antrobus begins to speak.

2. The stand-ins' lines refer to the futility of what?
(a) Despair.
(b) Hope.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Everyday life.

3. Henry says that his childhood led him to feel like he was being deprived of what?
(a) Life.
(b) Difficulties.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Trials.

4. Mr. Antrobus says Henry has to behave himself when who returns?
(a) Sabina.
(b) Gladys.
(c) His mother.
(d) The police.

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

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

7. What has happened to Gladys from the end of Act 2 to the beginning of Act 3?
(a) She has had a baby.
(b) She has become unable to walk.
(c) She has become an inventor.
(d) She has been wounded.

8. Mrs. Antrobus says that she married Mr. Antrobus for what reason?
(a) Money.
(b) The children.
(c) A promise.
(d) Love.

9. What is the last name Sabina is using after the beauty contest?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Fairworthy.
(c) Fairsailing.
(d) Fairweather.

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

11. Why does Mrs. Antrobus hand Gladys over to her father and then leave again?
(a) To pack their things.
(b) To find food.
(c) To look for Henry.
(d) To say goodbye to her family.

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

13. When Henry wakes up and confronts his father, what does he challenge Mr. Antrobus to do?
(a) Disown him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Murder him.
(d) Apologize to him.

14. Who tells Mr. Antrobus to take himself and his family onto the boat?
(a) The Broadcasters.
(b) The Fortune Teller.
(c) God.
(d) The Loudspeaker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Antrobus says that war is a what, compared to the prospect of trying to build a new life with Henry in the middle of it?

2. When the Fortune Teller looks over the water at the Antrobus' and their ship, she says what?

3. When Mrs. Antrobus and Sabina come back in, Henry says that ________can tell him what to do.

4. Fitzpatrick says that the stand-ins are going to portray the hours of the night as portrayed by whom?

5. Before Mr. Antrobus starts his broadcast he comments on what?

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