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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does B respond to A's situation at the end of Act 1, Part 4?
(a) She tells C to call the doctor.
(b) She pulls a sheet over A's face.
(c) She leaves to call the doctor.
(d) She gives A CPR.

2. What did the doctors tell A to do for her husband's infected shoulder?
(a) They told her to use maggots to eat the dead tissue.
(b) They told her to bring him to a witch doctor.
(c) They told her to bring him to the desert to bake out the infection.
(d) They told her to use leeches to drain some of the infected blood.

3. What does A say to C at the end of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) A tells C not to get fresh.
(b) A tells C to get out of her house.
(c) A tells C that she is too young to understand A's stories.
(d) A tells C that she should live so that she doesn't have any regrets when she is as old as A.

4. What does A ask at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Where she left her glasses.
(b) Whether it is the day "he" comes.
(c) Where C has gone.
(d) How many more days until her birthday.

5. What was A wearing on the night that the bracelet incident occurred?
(a) A towel.
(b) Nothing except her jewelry.
(c) A party dress.
(d) Her nightgown and jewelry.

6. Who checks to see if A is still alive at the end of Act 1, Part 4?
(a) B.
(b) The boy.
(c) C.
(d) A nurse.

7. Who helps A into the bathroom?
(a) C.
(b) The Boy.
(c) A nurse.
(d) B.

8. How does B try to reassure A when she cries in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) B tells A that her son still loves her, he's just too busy to visit a lot of the time.
(b) B tells A that she isn't going to die alone, that B and C will be there.
(c) B tells A that she will help her get her affairs in order.
(d) B tells A that what she can't remember is still there, she just can't access it all the time.

9. What does A's son sometimes bring when he comes to visit?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Money.
(c) New clothes.
(d) Chocolates and flowers.

10. What makes A cry in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) A confused memory about her parents.
(b) B and C's bickering.
(c) A harsh comment from B.
(d) A memory of her husband.

11. What does B say about A's friends being dead?
(a) She's glad because they were a bad influence on A.
(b) She didn't like most of them anyway.
(c) A should make more friends so she won't be lonely.
(d) B wonders how A outlived all of them.

12. What does B tell C about A's use of racial slurs?
(a) A had bad experiences with some people that led her to become prejudiced.
(b) A is not prejudiced against all people, only some.
(c) A doesn't really know what she's saying because she's too old to realize it.
(d) They are just the words A learned to use, and they don't really mean anything.

13. What comment does B make to C, regarding A's bathroom habits?
(a) A should be able to get to the bathroom by herself.
(b) A takes too long in the bathroom, and B can never use it.
(c) Just when B gets A in her chair, A has to go.
(d) A should be using a bedpan at night.

14. What does A's lawyer want to do?
(a) Sue her son.
(b) Help her with her finances.
(c) Repossess her home.
(d) Get B out of A's house.

15. What does B tell C about empathy?
(a) That she should be more empathetic so that people will be empathetic with her when she is old.
(b) That C will be old soon enough and won't have to imagine what it's like.
(c) That empathy is an unnecessary emotion.
(d) That having too much empathy can be bad for a person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the glass get broken in Act 1, Part 2?

2. What expression does A use that B laughs at?

3. Why does C think A is saying she is 91?

4. Why did Sis have to be forced into marriage?

5. How does A feel about the fact that most of her friends are dead?

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