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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What will the family remember most about Philip?
(a) His love and compassion
(b) His anger and his volatility
(c) His care and his confusion
(d) His genuis and his angst

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

5. What plans has Paris made for the day that, in addition to other feelings, keeps him from wanting to leave?
(a) He plans to help John with the house
(b) He plans to go hiking
(c) He plans to go fishing
(d) He plans to play with his school friend

6. What has Mother Lovejoy chosen to use as a form of transportation as opposed to a taxi to get to the train station?
(a) A small bus
(b) A plane
(c) A heliocopter
(d) A limousine

7. 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

8. How is Philip incapable of thinking?
(a) He is incapable of thinking rationaly
(b) He is incapable of thinking about the safety of his child
(c) He is incapable of thinking positively
(d) He is incapable of thinking of anyone besides himself

9. Where are Paris and his mother moving to?
(a) Brookyn Yard
(b) Bronx Village
(c) New York City
(d) Brooklyn Heights

10. In what kind of state is Philip when he recalls his boyhood?
(a) Depressed
(b) Happy
(c) Tense
(d) Dream-like

11. What is Philip's rationale for escaping with Paris?
(a) They need to start over
(b) He must prove his is not mad
(c) Philip needs to find work
(d) Nothing else has worked to gain Mollie's love back

12. What color is Philips face?
(a) Pale
(b) White
(c) Grey
(d) Yellow

13. What does Philip's desire to get Paris to leave with him stem from?
(a) Fear of being alone
(b) Fear of going on without Mollie
(c) His ultimate desire to live
(d) Pure evil

14. What was Mollie thinking at the moment of Philip's death that, because of their strong connection, she knows Philip knew about?
(a) Her love for Philip
(b) Paris
(c) The choice of her future husband
(d) John

15. What does Philip consider the power of love to be?
(a) Powerful
(b) Joyful
(c) Inspiring
(d) Depressing

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is John's story of his struggle to save the drowning sailor best described as?

2. What is Philip's emotional state during the third act?

3. What does Mother Lovejoy claim the taxi cab driver will do that will be disturbing to Mollie and is the reason why they should chose another mode of transportation?

4. What does Philip now see love and nature to be?

5. Which character is the most capable of showing personal affection as seen especially in Act 3?

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