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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. During the Fortune Teller's speech she heckles the audience about letting what slip away from them?
(a) The past.
(b) Their virtue.
(c) Their role.
(d) The main point.

2. What is Sabina wearing when she appears in the play for the first time?
(a) A jumper.
(b) A skirt.
(c) A uniform.
(d) A dark blue pant suit.

3. Where do the Antrobus' live?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) New Connecticut.
(d) New York.

4. What are the occupations of the old women who are refugees?
(a) Artists and poets.
(b) Writers and poets.
(c) Music teachers and writers.
(d) Music teachers and artists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food does Sabina make to feed the refugees?

2. What does Mrs. Antrobus do when she sees the man who spread the story about Mr. Antrobus wanting to be a fish?

3. What makes the announcement at the beginning of the play?

4. Sabina doesn't want to go outside to borrow some fire because she says it is too what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What roles do the stand-ins play?

2. When Mrs. Antrobus and Gladys greet Henry in Act 3, what do they say?

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

4. While Sabina and Mrs. Antrobus are blockading the door, what are the dinosaur and mammoth doing?

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

6. What are the most important achievements for Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, according to the loudspeaker announcement?

7. Mr. Antrobus acknowledges that every good thing in the world is what?

8. Why does Mr. Antrobus yell for the fires to be put out?

9. What does Mr. Antrobus tell Mrs. Antrobus his plan is to save them from the cold?

10. What does Mr. Antrobus celebrate in his speech to the international society of mammals?

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