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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is C unable to remember in Act 2, Part 4?
(a) The emotions associated with good and bad times.
(b) The emotions associated with her marriage.
(c) The emotions associated with her childhood.
(d) The emotions associated with her son's birth.

2. According to A, how long has she been alone, since her husband died?
(a) Sixteen years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Nine years.

3. Who is the son suddenly able to hear and see at the beginning of Act 2, Part 4?
(a) A, in her bed.
(b) A.
(c) C.
(d) B.

4. In Act 2, Part 1, C tells B that it is hard to consider what?
(a) Terminal illness.
(b) Losing A.
(c) Death.
(d) Dying alone.

5. What does C regret about her experience with the young man who took her virginity?
(a) She wishes she had married him.
(b) She wishes she had waited until she was older.
(c) She wishes she had waited for her husband.
(d) She couldn't do everything she wanted to do for him.

6. What are A and B's reactions to what C says about how she and Sis made a living?
(a) B doesn't want people to know about it, but A says it was fun.
(b) B thought it was fun, but A is embarrassed.
(c) Both A and B remain quiet and contemplative while C tells her story.
(d) B is confused, because she doesn't remember doing any of the things C describes, but A does, and misses doing it.

7. Why was A glad to see her son when he came to visit?
(a) She was lonely, and most of her friends and family had died.
(b) She missed him, and had second thoughts about the way she had treated him.
(c) She was happy to see that he had changed so much.
(d) She wasn't happy to see him; she only pretended to be.

8. What is the best moment of life according to A?
(a) The moment of her birth.
(b) The moment of her son's birth.
(c) The moment of her marriage.
(d) The final moment when it is possible to stop.

9. Why was A better off after she broke her back?
(a) The people she cared for saw it as proof that she wasn't perfect, and didn't resent her help as much.
(b) She got a lot of money from the accident, so she didn't have any more financial problems.
(c) She no longer had to work.
(d) She received lots of sympathy, and people did things for her all the time.

10. How did A break her back?
(a) She was in a car accident.
(b) She was thrown off of a horse.
(c) She fell out of a window.
(d) She was beaten.

11. In A's premonition, who was with her when she died?
(a) No one.
(b) The servants and her son.
(c) The servants.
(d) Her son.

12. How is A able to see herself and her life in Act 2, Part 4?
(a) With emotion.
(b) Objectively.
(c) In limited detail.
(d) With broken memories.

13. What does C want A and B to tell her, in Act 2, Part 4?
(a) What her relationship with her husband will be like.
(b) What A's son did that led to the distance between them.
(c) The happy times to come for her.
(d) What will happen to C in the next few years.

14. According to A, why did she marry her husband?
(a) Because she was lonely.
(b) Because she was in a hurry to have children.
(c) Because she was in love.
(d) Because he was rich.

15. What comment does C make regarding A/B's son?
(a) He is too thin.
(b) He looks rich.
(c) He seems nice.
(d) He is handsome.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does B react when her son walks in?

2. What happened to A's mother as she got older?

3. According to A, what is possible in the final moment of life?

4. What does C remember her mother telling her in Act 2, Part 1?

5. How does C feel about jewelry?

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