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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jo promise to buy Geof for Christmas?
(a) She promises to buy him dinner.
(b) She promises to buy him a bed.
(c) She promises to buy him a dog.
(d) She promises to buy him a car.

2. What media does Geof discover that Jo has used for her drawing?
(a) Pencil.
(b) Oil paint.
(c) Charcoal.
(d) Ink.

3. Why does Peter keep singing?
(a) He is drunk and being obnoxious.
(b) He is an aspiring musician.
(c) He knows Helen loves to hear him sing.
(d) He thinks the baby will enjoy it.

4. What secret does Jo finally reveal to Geof?
(a) She has six toes on one foot.
(b) She is in love with Peter.
(c) Her father was the village idiot.
(d) She is in love with Geof.

5. In the stage directions, what denotes the changing of time?
(a) Geof and Jo dance on and off stage with different props.
(b) Helen reenters and looks at her watch.
(c) Jo pulls the curtain, then when it opens, everything is different.
(d) The narrator tells the audience that two months have passed.

6. How does Jo tell Helen to light the stove?
(a) The stove does not works.
(b) Turns all the knobs.
(c) Gather some wood and use flint.
(d) Light a match.

7. What does Jo forbid Helen to do?
(a) She forbids Helen from caring for the baby.
(b) She forbids Helen from drinking.
(c) She forbids Helen from entering the apartment.
(d) She forbids Helen from being rude to Geof.

8. What classical Greek figure is in the joke Peter tells Geof?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Euripides.

9. Does Geof want to tell Helen about the baby?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Helen already knows.
(d) He's not sure.

10. Where does Jo plan to have the baby?
(a) She plans to have the baby in the forest.
(b) She plans to have the baby in the apartment.
(c) She plans to have the baby in the hospital.
(d) She plans to have the baby in a birthing center.

11. To what classic novel does Jo compare the book she is reading?
(a) Hard Times.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Oliver Twist.
(d) Sense and Sensibility.

12. Why does Geof say his landlady has kicked him out?
(a) She did not like his art.
(b) He stole money from her.
(c) He was behind on the rent.
(d) She did not like the way he decorated the place.

13. Who does Helen ask for advice right before she leaves?
(a) Jimmie.
(b) Geof.
(c) The audience.
(d) Jo.

14. When Geof returns, what medicine does Jo ask him to give her?
(a) Muscle relaxers for her back.
(b) Headache pills.
(c) Antacids for her stomach.
(d) Antihistamine for her allergies.

15. Before he leaves, what is the one thing Geof asks of Helen?
(a) He asks her to kill Peter.
(b) He asks her to marry him.
(c) He asks her not to frighten Jo.
(d) He asks her never to speak to him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geof bring home that Helen does not approve of?

2. Who is planning to make the baby a cradle?

3. Why has Helen been losing sleep?

4. Why has Geof stayed with Jo?

5. Why does Geof leave when Helen arrives?

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