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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Arnold make a living?
(a) As a bartender.
(b) As an architect.
(c) As a male model and a hustler for gay sex.
(d) As a teacher.

2. Where is Arnold at the opening of this scene?
(a) The International Stud gay bar.
(b) The hospital.
(c) At home.
(d) In a church service.

3. What does Murray want Arnold to do?
(a) To go home and try to sleep off the drugs he took.
(b) To jump off the Golden Gate bridge for his suicide.
(c) Go to the back room.
(d) To drive with him to Mexico City.

4. Whom does Ed resent?
(a) Alan.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Arnold.
(d) No one.

5. How does Arnold feel about the possible visit?
(a) Uncertain.
(b) Excited.
(c) Negative.
(d) Indifferent.

6. Who is Ed dating?
(a) Murray.
(b) No one.
(c) Jacs.
(d) Laurel.

7. How often does Lady sing a torch song?
(a) Between each scene.
(b) Never.
(c) After each actor speaks.
(d) Only once at the beginning of the play.

8. About what is Ed evasive?
(a) That he knows about Arnold's infidelity.
(b) That he is seeing someone else.
(c) That his parents are there.
(d) That he plans to break up with Arnold.

9. What happens when Arnold bends over to set a beer can down?
(a) He asks the man who is with him to leave him alone.
(b) The stranger penetrates him from behind.
(c) He sees a religious tract and decides to leave.
(d) He drops the beer and it foams all over his clothes.

10. Whose perspective is revealed in the conversation?
(a) Ed.
(b) The homeless man's.
(c) Arnold.
(d) The bartender's.

11. Who is jealous of Alan?
(a) Murray.
(b) Arnold.
(c) Ed.
(d) Laurel.

12. How is the person trying to awaken Arnold?
(a) With a bucket of cold water.
(b) By yelling in his ear.
(c) With teasing and flirting.
(d)

13. What style is the dialogue in this scene?
(a) Metaphorical.
(b) Antiphonic.
(c) Harmoniuos.
(d) Like a fugue.

14. What does Murray look like?
(a) He is medium height, balding and wears glasses.
(b) He is not onstage, so the audience does not know.
(c) He is buffed and quite handsome.
(d) He is short with a bit of a paunch around the middle.

15. What does Laurel want?
(a) To ask for Ed's baby pictures back.
(b) To tell Arnold that Ed has died.
(c) To issue an invitation to Arnold.
(d) To see if Arnold knows where Ed is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ed date a woman as well as Arnold?

2. With whom does Ed converse?

3. What is Ed's solution to his conflict?

4. Why does Arnold go to the gay bar?

5. Who is trying to awaken Arnold?

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