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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has Brucie come to the bar to see when he is first told that Chris has gained admittance to college?
(a) Tracey.
(b) Jessie.
(c) Chris.
(d) Cynthia.

2. For how many years has Cynthia worked on the factory floor before she applies for the management position?
(a) 36.
(b) 24.
(c) 32.
(d) 14.

3. Who is the bartender at the bar that serves as main setting within the play's narrative?
(a) Otto.
(b) Stan.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Brucie.

4. What does Stan say is at the core of everything?
(a) Human decency.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Truth.

5. What simile does Jason use to describe Reading High School?
(a) Like a prison yard.
(b) Like a ghost town.
(c) Like a circus.
(d) Like a zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of job does Evan hold?

2. What name does Brucie call Tracey when she is trying to get him to stop bothering Cynthia at the bar?

3. When Chris and Jason encounter each other for the first time since their release from prison, what action do they take?

4. How many days' pay does Chris say it costs him to buy a meal at the Olive Garden and a night at the movies?

5. On what holiday does Cynthia say she and her husband Brucie had briefly reconciled before he robbed her home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the different reactions of Chris and Jason to their respective post-prison stresses.

2. During the conversation about the open management position, how does Cynthia and Tracey's relationship experience a noticeable shift?

3. Why does Cynthia decide to pursue the open management position at Olstead's?

4. Characterize Evan's methods of performing his job as a parole officer.

5. How do Jason and Chris view travel differently during the earlier of the two eras depicted in the play?

6. How does invisibility play a role in Scenes 1 and 2 of Act One?

7. How does Jason feel about his relationship with his mom Tracey in 2000?

8. What is Nottage's purpose in depicting Stan and Tracey as having been involved sexually before they became friends?

9. How is the theme of racial tension presented by the playwright before any dialogue is even spoken?

10. Why does Stan say that his work injury had been the best thing to ever happen to him?

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