View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ed's opinion of the subject matter of what he is reading?
(a) He has no opinion since he is not reading.
(b) He thinks the cologne should be based on male pheromones.
(c) He thinks it's sexy.
(d) He finds the bloodbath of the French revolution fascinating.

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

3. Whom is Laurel calling?
(a) Murray.
(b) Ed.
(c) Arnold and Alan.
(d) Her mother.

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

5. Why does Laurel say she is not inviting Alan and Arnold to her parent's home?
(a) There is limited space.
(b) Her parents hate gay men.
(c) They live too far away.
(d) She does not say.

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

7. How does Laurel say she met Ed?
(a) While they were in the same therapy group.
(b) Through a personals ad in the newspaper.
(c) At a bus stop.
(d) Through Ed's mother with whom Laurel works.

8. What is implied in the song Arnold sings?
(a) Nothing since he was too upset to go onstage.
(b) That he still feels something for Ed.
(c) That the perfect man may be a woman.
(d) That Arnold believes in love at first sight.

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

10. To whom is Ed reading?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Murray.
(c) No one.
(d) Laurel.

11. Of what do both couples agree?
(a) That they should split up.
(b) That their individual relationships are honest and open.
(c) That love is not reliable.
(d) That they should swap partners sexually for a night.

12. What is Mrs. Beckoff's main concern about Arnold adopting David?
(a) That Arnold cannot afford to financially support a child.
(b) That the courts will not approve the adoption and Arnold will be hurt.
(c) That Arnold's lifestyle as inappropriate for raising a child.
(d) That Arnold will want Mrs. Beckoff to treat David like a grandson.

13. What is the subject of Ed's reading?
(a) How this new cologne is based on female pheromones.
(b) A love affair between an 80-year-old woman and a boy of fifteen.
(c) Nothing; he is not reading.
(d) About the French revolution.

14. What day of the week is it at the opening of this scene?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

15. Why is Arnold angry with Ed?
(a) He is not sympathetic about Alan's death.
(b) He left Arnold to face Arnold's mother alone.
(c) He does not want to have a sexual relationship with Arnold.
(d) He lied to the social worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David hope about Ed and Arnold?

2. What has the weekend stirred up?

3. What does each couple enjoy?

4. Why does Laurel want Arnold and Alan to rise?

5. What was Arnold's mother's response and friends' responses to Arnold's loss of Alan?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 699 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample