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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. What physical ailment does the bartender have when we first meet him in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) He is hard of hearing.
(b) He has a pronounced limp.
(c) He has a prosthetic leg.
(d) He is blind in one eye.

2. How does Stan reveal that his leg had been injured, causing his limp?
(a) He had been attacked by a scab during a strike.
(b) He was in a bad car accident.
(c) He had gotten a bad staph infection.
(d) His leg got caught in a machine at the mill.

3. At the start of Act 1, Scene 4, how many weeks does Brucie tell Stan he and the other workers have been locked out of the plant?
(a) 52.
(b) 72.
(c) 93.
(d) 36.

4. What crime does Tracey ask Oscar how to commit without getting caught?
(a) Burning down her own house.
(b) Robbing a bank.
(c) Burning down a factory.
(d) Murdering her boss.

5. What does Stan say is the best thing that has ever happened to him?
(a) Getting fired from Olstead's.
(b) Winning his lawsuit against Olstead's.
(c) Quitting his job at Olstead's.
(d) Getting injured at Olstead's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What simile does Jason use to describe Reading High School?

2. What type of food does the restaurant serve where Jason tells Evan he has just gotten a job after being released from prison?

3. What is the name of Chris's girlfriend?

4. For how many years did Stan work at Olstead's before he was injured?

5. In what year does Act 1, Scene 1 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's purpose in using Tracey's character to express racist views directly to Oscar, rather than using a character like Jessie?

2. What event causes the first rift within Chris's and Jason's friendship in February of 2000?

3. How does Brucie's experience at the union office again display the theme of racial tension?

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

5. In the earlier of the two eras depicted in the play, what are the differences between Chris's ambitions and Jason's ambitions?

6. How is the theme of abject desperation demonstrated through Stan's reporting of the newspaper story about town citizen Freddy Brunner?

7. What does Chris mean when he says, "A man gotta have one vice that keeps him hungry" (30), and how is his choice of vice different from his father Brucie's?

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

9. What does Evan mean when he tells Chris that "the river keeps flowing" (9)?

10. How does the theme of silence appear within the conversation that Jason and Chris have about college?

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