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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. Who were the only "colored" people that A knew?
(a) The "help."
(b) Girls she went to school with.
(c) Girls she worked with.
(d) Her neighbors.

2. Whose name is A trying to remember at the end of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Her niece.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her husband's brother.
(d) The movie star she met.

3. What worries C, regarding A's bathroom habits?
(a) C worries that A will lose control and embarrass herself in public.
(b) C worries that A will fall and hurt herself in the bathroom.
(c) C worries that A loses control of her bladder in the chair C is sitting in.
(d) C worries that A will ruin her expensive antique furniture.

4. What does A say about Sis in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) She was promiscuous.
(b) She drank.
(c) She had an abortion.
(d) She was murdered.

5. What advice does B give C about getting older in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) B tells C to live her life so she won't have any regrets when she is older.
(b) B tells C to save her money so she can live in a nice rest home.
(c) B tells C to make the most of the time she has left.
(d) B tells C to relax because getting old is inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A says in Act 1, Part 2 that she learned lessons about people from whom?

3. What does C say to B about getting older, in Act 1, Part 1?

4. Why does A feel that she always had to be strong?

5. A thinks that all of her staff do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the three main characters?

2. What does A say about her personal strength, in Act 1, Part 4?

3. According to B, how did her affair with the groom end?

4. How does B reassure a weeping A when she can't remember details in Act 1, Part 3?

5. What reassurance does C plead with A and B for, in Act 2, Part 4?

6. What does B say about the best time of life?

7. To whom is A referring when she uses the pronoun "he"?

8. What does C say about how she and Sis made a living in Act 2, Part 1?

9. What does B mean when she says that they were with one man for forty years, "more or less"?

10. What does A say about riding in Act 1, Part 2?

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