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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best phrase to describe Philip's perception of his world during this dark time?
(a) No one cares for him
(b) Everything is a struggle
(c) Everthing is hopeless
(d) Everything can turn around

2. Where is Philip by the time Mollie rises?
(a) He has left
(b) He is in the kitchen
(c) He has gone to the barn
(d) He is waiting in the car

3. How does Mollie react to Paris's "square root of wonderful?"
(a) She is happy
(b) She laughs
(c) She does not understand
(d) She hugs Paris and John

4. How does Paris feel about his father's irrational behavior?
(a) Anxious
(b) Worried
(c) Frustrated
(d) Scared

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

6. When Philip was younger, how long did he think love and joy would last?
(a) He didn't know
(b) As long as he wanted it to
(c) Forever
(d) Until manhood

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

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

9. Who does Mother Lovejoy say will inherit her estate when she dies?
(a) Paris
(b) Mollie and Paris
(c) Sister
(d) Mollie

10. What is John's profession of an architect a metaphor of?
(a) Housing a family
(b) Building a new way of thinking
(c) Stiking out on his own
(d) Rebuilding Mollie and Paris's lives

11. Who is the only one that can reach Philip?
(a) Mollie
(b) Sister
(c) Mother Lovejoy
(d) No one can reach him

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

13. What happens to Mollie's attitude after she hears John's story about the sailor?
(a) She gets more depressed
(b) She remains paralyzed
(c) She laughs
(d) She begins to understand

14. What does Paris accuse his father of being to come up with such an idea of leaving?
(a) High
(b) Tired
(c) Drunk
(d) Hungover

15. Where does Philip tell Paris he intends to go with him?
(a) Up north
(b) Somewhere neither of them has been
(c) Out of the country
(d) To the city

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paris confess and confirm that Philip wanted to do with Paris the morning he left?

2. What does Philip recall in response to Paris's outdoor plans for the day?

3. What is literary device is employed in Paris's statement that his father does not look well?

4. Is Mollie awake when Philip leaves?

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

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