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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Philip ultimately seeking as he is making his escape and intending to end his life?
(a) Acceptance
(b) Happiness
(c) Satisfaction
(d) Comfort

2. What is the core reason or feeling why Paris does not go with his father?
(a) Intuition
(b) True fear
(c) Disobedience
(d) Faith

3. What is the story that John tells when relating to Paris's story regarding his father?
(a) A sailor who killed himself
(b) A sailor that drowned himself
(c) A sailor who kept pulling down John with him
(d) A sailor who was sad

4. What does Philip believe his only course of action because Mollie does not understand how much he loves her?
(a) To force Mollie to come with them and start over
(b) To leave and take Paris with him
(c) To kidnap Mollie
(d) To try one more time to resolve their love

5. What does Mother Lovejoy have tremendous distaste for in terms of the expression of emotions?
(a) Casual embraces
(b) Romantic advances
(c) Confessions in confidence
(d) Personal affection

6. What is Paris's answer to his father's idea to leave together?
(a) Paris leaves willingly
(b) Paris is excited to leave the farm
(c) Paris wants to tell his mother he is leaving
(d) Paris refuses to leave

7. What does John believe is the basis for his calculations of all human conditions?
(a) Love or danger
(b) Sin or love
(c) Genius or paralysis
(d) Safety or danger

8. What is Philip inevitably intending to do because he cannot solve his own problems?
(a) Kidnap his son
(b) Kill Mollie
(c) Run away
(d) Kill himself

9. Which character is the most capable of showing personal affection as seen especially in Act 3?
(a) Mollie
(b) Paris
(c) John
(d) Mother Lovejoy

10. How does Mother Lovejoy show that Paris is now the one she will love the most?
(a) By promising him a new home
(b) By promising him a new father
(c) By promising him a new life
(d) By promising him an inheritance

11. What does the state of the furniture in Paris's house make it look like the family is in the throws of?
(a) Moving
(b) Cleaning
(c) Refurbishing
(d) Mourning

12. What is literary device is employed in Paris's statement that his father does not look well?
(a) It is a foreshadowing
(b) It is personification
(c) It is irony
(d) It is imagery

13. What does Paris confess and confirm that Philip wanted to do with Paris the morning he left?
(a) Leave alone
(b) Take Paris with him
(c) Take Mollie with him
(d) Plot against John

14. What does Philip now see love and nature to be?
(a) Uncontrollable
(b) Pure joy
(c) Fleeting happiness
(d) A struggle

15. What has Mollie done in the middle of the night?
(a) Mollie has left Philip
(b) Mollie has left alone
(c) Mollie has escaped with John
(d) Mollie has packed her things

Short Answer Questions

1. What plans has Paris made for the day that, in addition to other feelings, keeps him from wanting to leave?

2. Where are Paris and his mother moving to?

3. With Mollie's bags packed, what does Mollie intend to do?

4. Who does John think Mollie must choose to save from a similar fate as Philip?

5. What does John talk about that brightens the mood of both Mollie and Paris?

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