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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nettie get an aspirin for?
(a) Her headache.
(b) Timmy's headache.
(c) The vase of roses.
(d) John's headache.

2. What happens to the vase after Nettie throws the roses?
(a) John catches it.
(b) It shatters.
(c) It remains intact.
(d) It breaks in half.

3. What does Nettie reject in the third scene?
(a) John's criticism.
(b) John's questions.
(c) John's advances.
(d) John's jokes.

4. What does John have scheduled on the day the play opens?
(a) An appointment.
(b) A job interview.
(c) A meeting with a friend.
(d) A lunch with his boss.

5. What does John consider impressive about Timmy's jacket?
(a) How big it is.
(b) The bars and medals.
(c) How clean it is.
(d) Its color.

6. Where is Timmy's army jacket, as John admires it?
(a) On the floor.
(b) On the couch.
(c) Hanging on the door.
(d) Draped over a chair.

7. What does John tell Nettie to do with regards to Timmy and his activities?
(a) Ignore him.
(b) Watch him carefully.
(c) Lecture him.
(d) Ease up on him.

8. What does John contend about Timmy to Nettie?
(a) He will always be a boy.
(b) He has never been a boy.
(c) He is still a boy.
(d) He is no longer a boy.

9. What does Nettie tell John after she gets the aspirin?
(a) It was nice of him to pay for the show.
(b) It was nice of him to pay for dinner.
(c) It was nice of him to go to the game.
(d) It was nice of him to get her the roses.

10. What does Nettie lecture John about in the first scene of Act 1?
(a) Eating too much.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Not eating enough.
(d) Not getting enough sleep.

11. What does the family plan to do as the second scene of the play ends?
(a) Visit another relative.
(b) See a movie.
(c) Take a trip.
(d) Eat dinner.

12. What year does the play, "The Subject was Roses", take place in?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1945.

13. What is interesting about the howls at the end of the second scene of Act 1?
(a) They become louder.
(b) They become softer.
(c) They become shorter.
(d) They become longer.

14. What is Nettie's secondary response to the roses?
(a) She is a little sad.
(b) She is excited.
(c) She is depressed.
(d) She is overwhelmed.

15. What type of flowers did Nettie's father used to send to her?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Carnations.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is howling at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

2. How are Timmy and John feeling at the start of Act 1, Scene 3?

3. What does John pretend he is doing as he hears someone coming in the beginning of the play?

4. What is John wondering as he and Timmy talk about the war in the second scene of Act 1?

5. What has Timmy seen during the war, according to John?

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