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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Arnold and Alan decide?
(a) That both need to be tested for HIV since Ed is HIV positive.
(b) That Alan and Ed should be together.
(c) That despite Alan's infidelity, they want to be together.
(d) That they are better off just friends.

2. With what is Mrs. Beckoff concerned?
(a) With the obvious enmity between Ed and David.
(b) With Arnold's plans to adopt David.
(c) With the threat of Arnold contracting HIV.
(d) With whether Arnold is happy.

3. How much time has passed since the last scene?
(a) Five years.
(b) A week.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

4. Of what does Arnold sing after Laurel leaves?
(a) A torch song about the end of an affair.
(b) Nothing; he is too upset to go onstage.
(c) A torch song about meeting the perfect man.
(d) A torch song about beauty and the beast.

5. What do Laurel and Ed do despite the presence of Alan and Arnold?
(a) Have Ed's parents over for brunch.
(b) Go off to play tennis.
(c) Make love.
(d) Continue their Sunday morning schedule.

6. How might Laurel have worked it out that her plan had been more successful?
(a) To have known if she was able to get pregnant at that time.
(b) To invite several other couples with whom Laurel might have found a man to become pregnant.
(c) To have reserved the local indoor tennis court.
(d) To tell Arnold to come alone.

7. What does Laurel plan to accomplish over the weekend?
(a) To ascertain if there was still a spark between Arnold and Ed.
(b) She had no particular plans.
(c) To become pregnant by Arnold since Ed is sterile.
(d) To learn how to serve a ball in tennis as well as Arnold can.

8. How does David respond to Arnold telling him that Arnold still intends to adopt David?
(a) David says he wants Ed to adopt him instead.
(b) David is skeptical.
(c) David has decided he does not want to be adopted because of Mrs. Beckoff.
(d) David is appreciative of Arnold's thoughtfulness and states his joy at the thought of being adopted as Arnold's son.

9. What characters are on stage at the opening of this scene?
(a) Ed, Arnold, and David.
(b) Mrs. Beckoff and Arnold.
(c) Alan and Arnold.
(d) Ed and Laurel.

10. What does Mrs. Beckoff believe at first about David when David arrives?
(a) That David is a biracial child.
(b) That Arnold has taken on an underage lover.
(c) That David is Arnold's biological son.
(d) That David should go to a home with a mother and father.

11. What do Ed and Arnold declare?
(a) That they have realized they are in love.
(b) That nothing sexual happened between them.
(c) That they had sex but didn't enjoy it.
(d) That they are leaving for Paris together.

12. What does Laurel admit about the weekend?
(a) That it was one of the best in a long time.
(b) That it has not gone as she planned.
(c) That she wishes it had never happened.
(d) That it was too short.

13. What does Arnold believe validates Laurel's attraction to gay men?
(a) The fact that Ed has told Laurel he is gay and she stays with him.
(b) The fact that Laurel goes to male gay bars frequently.
(c) The pass she makes for Alan.
(d) The fact that Laurel has slept with several gay men.

14. What is a codetta?
(a) The way a spy finds his mark.
(b) A secret message.
(c) A link between the entries of a subject.
(d) An addition to something already complete.

15. According to David, how has Arnold been since Alan's death?
(a) Arnold has been suicidal.
(b) Arnold has become very religious.
(c) Arnold has been going to the bars every night.
(d) Arnold is lonely and leads a solitary life since Alan's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Arnold and Alan more resistant to than eating breakfast?

2. What is Laurel's news?

3. What has Laurel done?

4. What do Arnold and Ed manage to do?

5. What crisis that was just emerging during the writing of this play did the author seem to have in mind when writing this play?

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