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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 Duffy do when he learns a murder has not yet been committed?
(a) Motions for another officer to come in the room.
(b) Grips phone tightly.
(c) Gets up and paces.
(d) Relaxes, sighs, and takes lunch from bag.

2. When making a second call after receiving the telegram, how does Mrs. Stevenson lift the receiver?
(a) Nervously.
(b) With shaking hands.
(c) Hesitantly.
(d) With trembling fingers.

3. How does Mrs. Stevenson hang up the phone after the man who calls her in Act I, Part 4, hangs up?
(a) Slams the receiver.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Bangs the receiver.
(d) Slowly.

4. What does Mrs. Stevenson do as she thinks about being alone that evening?
(a) Runs her hands through her hair.
(b) Pulls on her wedding band.
(c) Wrings her hands.
(d) Twists her bed jacket in her fingers.

5. After Duffy say the police will take care of the matter, what does Mrs. Stevenson ask will be done?
(a) Issue a radio announcement.
(b) Broadcast the information all over the city.
(c) Call her private patrolman.
(d) Post someone in her heighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mrs. Stevenson thinks about being alone that evening, what reference to time does she make and say that she cannot be alone any longer than that?

2. What does the lunch counter attendant bring Duffy while he is speaking to Mrs. Stevenson?

3. How does Duffy describe the clue that Mrs. Stevenson gave him?

4. After listening to the telegram and trying to have the operator reach her husband's office, what does Mrs. Stevenson do?

5. Where does the lunch counter attendant have a fork?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Stevenson say when the phone rings again after she has been speaking with the Third Operator?

2. What does Duffy say about murders in the city?

3. How does Duffy suggest that Mrs. Stevenson view the matter?

4. How does the call end with the Western Union messenger?

5. After speaking with Western Union, what sound can be heard outside and what does Mrs. Stevenson do?

6. How does Mrs. Stevenson react after hearing the telegram her husband sent?

7. As Duffy tries to end the call with Mrs. Stevenson, what does she ask him to do?

8. What does Duffy tell Mrs. Stevenson when she says that the murder could take place in her neighborhood?

9. Why does the operator tell Mrs. Stevenson that she cannot put through the missed calls Mrs. Stevenson received?

10. What does Mrs. Stevenson to do after trying her husband's office number again at the end of Act I, Part 4?

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