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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. How does Helen describe the wallpaper?
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Floral.
(c) Polka-dot.
(d) Old-fashioned.

2. What type of music do the first stage directions say should be playing?
(a) Blues music.
(b) Rock music.
(c) Rap music.
(d) Jazz music.

3. What is the climate like in the new apartment according to Helen?
(a) The apartment is stuffy.
(b) The apartment is terribly muggy, like a steamhouse.
(c) The apartment is cold and drafty, a shelter to the four winds.
(d) The apartment is swelteringly hot.

4. Why does Jo attack Peter?
(a) She wants him to go back to the bar and wait for she and Helen to be ready.
(b) She wants him to leave she and Helen alone because he is not her father.
(c) She wants him to make her dinner because she is starving.
(d) She wants him to return the dress because she hates the color.

5. What specific kind of dark scares Jo?
(a) The darkness outside.
(b) The darkness inside houses.
(c) The darkness of caves.
(d) The darkness in schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen reveal about Jo's father?

2. What important event in Jo's life has Helen forgotten?

3. How does Jo make Helen's coffee?

4. What excuse does Jo give when it is time for her to go?

5. What does Peter wear on his eye(s)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Geof whenever Helen is around?

2. How does Jo feel about she and Helen's new apartment?

3. How does Peter feel about Jo in the first scene?

4. Why does Jo attack Peter, half-laughing, half-crying?

5. Describe Jo and Helen's new neighborhood.

6. What are Helen's thoughts on destiny, as she tells Jo after their conversation about the shiek?

7. How was Jo comforted last Christmas during Helen's absence?

8. What does Jo say to make Geof almost leave the apartment?

9. Is Helen sensitive about being older than Peter?

10. Why does Helen so dislike Geof?

(see the answer keys)

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