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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. What does Sabina ask the audience to pass up for the fire?
(a) Their clothing.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their chairs.
(d) Their purses.

2. When Gladys returns with Mr. Antrobus' slippers, she begs him to do what?
(a) Praise her just once.
(b) Sing to her just once.
(c) Teach her something just once.
(d) Look at her just once.

3. What does Mr. Antrobus tell Mrs. Antrobus to do to save them from the cold?
(a) Invent something that warms everyone.
(b) Discover electric fire.
(c) Build a bigger fire.
(d) Burn everything in the house.

4. Sabina implies that Henry hit his older brother with what?
(a) A rock.
(b) A lamp.
(c) A ball.
(d) A knife.

5. Mr. Antrobus debunks the accusations that in the moments before his birth he almost chose to be what?
(a) A bird.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was found, according to the announcement, with the inscription "From Eva to Adam"?

2. A society proclaiming the end of the world postponed it because they saw what?

3. Mr. Antrobus is introduced, during the slide show, as the inventor of what?

4. How many weeks notice does Sabina give Mrs. Antrobus?

5. How many old women are among the crowd of refugees at the Antrobus'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the set in the beginning of Act 3.

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

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

4. Describe the wedding ring that was found at the beginning of the play.

5. Why does Mr. Antrobus vow to continue fighting Henry?

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

7. Who gets on the boat with Mr. Antrobus?

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

9. What does Mr. Antrobus say that he used to imagine during the war?

10. What is Sabina's initial reaction when Mrs. Antrobus tells her that the soup cubes should be given to charity?

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