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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 explanation of his father's death?
(a) His father was murdered
(b) His father was in a car accident
(c) His father was a victim of assault
(d) His father was in ill physical health

2. What is Philip's emotional state during the third act?
(a) A state of rage
(b) A state of freedom
(c) A state of depression
(d) A state of despair

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

4. How does Philip act when he discusses his course of action to leave with Paris?
(a) Stealth
(b) Cunning
(c) Desperate
(d) Forceful

5. Why does Philip need Paris to accompany him?
(a) To make his mother worry
(b) To soothe him from fear
(c) To save him from himself
(d) As payback to Mollie

6. What does the covered furniture symbolize?
(a) The future
(b) The ghosts of the past
(c) Philip's death
(d) The need to move on

7. What does Philip recall in response to Paris's outdoor plans for the day?
(a) His own childhood
(b) His love of the outdoors
(c) His love of boating
(d) Paris's childhood

8. Why does Mother Lovejoy want to hire a limousine for Mollie?
(a) To show status
(b) So she may cry in peace
(c) For privacy from the public
(d) So no one can see inside

9. What does John talk about that brightens the mood of both Mollie and Paris?
(a) The memory of Philip
(b) The fate of the farm
(c) The love and support of Sister
(d) Their new house and life together

10. What essentially trigger's Paris to decline his father's offer to leave together?
(a) The color of Philip's face
(b) The cold touch of Philip's hand
(c) The tone of Philip's voice
(d) The feeling in Philip's gut

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

12. What does Paris go to do after his father discusses love and nature with him?
(a) To find Mother Lovejoy
(b) To get ready to go fishing
(c) To rouse Mollie
(d) To wake Sister

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

14. What has Philip done to convince Mollie that he loves her?
(a) Become enraged with passion over her
(b) Everything he can
(c) Used his son to get to her
(d) Threatened her

15. 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 irony
(c) It is personification
(d) It is imagery

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of surroundings does Philip prefer now as opposed to his boyhood?

2. What has Philip taken with him in the early morning after asking Paris to come away with him?

3. How does Mollie react to Paris's "square root of wonderful?"

4. What is covering the furnishings in Paris's house after his father's death?

5. How does Paris feel about his father's irrational behavior?

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