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

2. Act 2 begins with an announcement by whom (or what)?
(a) Mr. Antrobus.
(b) God.
(c) A casino worker.
(d) The loudspeaker.

3. Mr. Antrobus is going to be late for dinner because he is busy developing what?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Medicine.
(c) The wheel.
(d) Multiplication tables.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mrs. Antrobus' other son?

2. Mrs. Antrobus says that she does not believe that sleeping with a window open is what?

3. What does Mr. Antrobus tell Mrs. Antrobus to do to save them from the cold?

4. What does Mrs. Antrobus quote while Henry quotes the multiplication tables?

5. Who asked the refugees to come to the Antrobus' house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Mr. Antrobus tells Henry that war is a pleasure compared to what?

2. What does Gladys tell Mr. Antrobus before running away from Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus?

3. What do the lines of the philosophers, played by the stand-ins, concern?

4. In Mrs. Antrobus' speech to the international society of mammals, what does she list as her more important discoveries?

5. What is in the message Mrs. Antrobus puts in the bottle?

6. What are the accusations leveled at Mr. Antrobus that he debunks in his speech to the international society of mammals?

7. What does Mrs. Antrobus tell Henry and Gladys to do when Mr. Antrobus comes home from his hard day at work?

8. What is Mrs. Antrobus' reaction when Mr. Antrobus tells her that he is leaving her?

9. Why do Sabina and Mrs. Antrobus blockade the door?

10. What does Sabina speak about in her monologue at the beginning of the play?

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