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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Carlyle begins to flirt drunkenly with Richie, what does he do?
(a) Carlyle starts hugging Richie.
(b) Caryle starts rubbing Richie's back.
(c) Carlyle starts kissing Richie.
(d) Carlyle runs is hands through Richie's hair.

2. According to Carlyle, what is the Army all about?
(a) Duties.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Dying.
(d) Killing.

3. Why does Billy claim to want to get a part-time job as a bartender?
(a) To meet women.
(b) To learn the ropes of being tougher.
(c) For the money.
(d) To become part of the world again.

4. Why does Carlyle say that Richie has the duty job that he does?
(a) Because he is weak.
(b) For kissing ass
(c) Because he is gay.
(d) Because he is dying.

5. How does Richie try to get Carlyle to leave the room peacefully after Carlyle accuses him of being rude?
(a) Richie tries to kiss Carlyle.
(b) Richie goes over to Carlyle and holds his hand while walking him out.
(c) Richie is not peaceful; he is blunt and tells Carlyle to leave.
(d) Richie claims Carlyle must have some very important business to attend to.

6. What does Carlyle blame his bad behavior on?
(a) Carlyle says he is restless and bored.
(b) Carlyle says he just received his papers.
(c) Carlyle says he is drunk.
(d) Carlyle states that he was placed on the DL.

7. Richie enters the bunk room as Carlyle and Billy are discussing him. What does Richie state about Carlyle?
(a) That Carlyle has not come down out of the trees yet.
(b) That Carlyle is ignorant.
(c) That Carlyle is trouble.
(d) That Carlyle is a closet homosexual.

8. What does Carlyle call Roger throughout the play?
(a) Ro.
(b) Kid.
(c) Newbie.
(d) The black boy.

9. After Carlyle leaves the room, after calling Richie rude, what does Billy say will cause him to find another bunk room?
(a) If Richie keeps making moves on him.
(b) If Carlyle falls asleep on the floor again.
(c) If Rooney keeps coming in drunk.
(d) If Carlyle moves into their bunk room.

10. Why does Roger think Billy wants to get a part-time job bartending?
(a) To become tougher.
(b) Because of the black-haired waitress.
(c) For the money.
(d) To lose his virginity.

11. Where is Billy from?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Nebraska.

12. How much money does Richie loan Carlyle?
(a) $15.
(b) $20.
(c) $10.
(d) $5.

13. Why does Carlyle say he doesn't like "nobody's voice but my own"?
(a) He thinks everyone is beneath him.
(b) He thinks everyone is gay.
(c) He thinks everyone talks bad about him.
(d) Everyone bores him.

14. Whose bed is Carlyle lying on when Billy comes back from the gym?
(a) Richie's.
(b) Billy's.
(c) Martin's.
(d) Roger's.

15. What is the only book that Richie tries to read during the play?
(a) William Faulkner's, "The Sound and the Fury."
(b) Lewis Carroll's, "Behind the Looking Glass."
(c) Jo & Meg's, "Comic Tragedies."
(d) Pauline Kael's, "I Lost it at the Movies."

Short Answer Questions

1. After discussing what has happened to Martin, what does Richie offer to Carlyle?

2. What is Carlyle's job in P Company?

3. As the men are discussing Carlyle before going to town, why does Roger say Carlyle has been acting like he has?

4. What part of the day is it at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

5. What initial reason does Roger give for going off base with Carlyle?

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