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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Laurel's parents live?
(a) The California coast.
(b) Europe.
(c) South America.
(d) New England.

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

3. Where is Alan?
(a) He is in the bath.
(b) He is cooking breakfast in the kitchen.
(c) He has died.
(d) He and Arnold split up and he moved out.

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

5. What does Laurel plan to accomplish over the weekend?
(a) She had no particular plans.
(b) To ascertain if there was still a spark between Arnold and Ed.
(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.

6. What do Arnold and Ed manage to do?
(a) Get some time alone together.
(b) Have a sexual encounter.
(c) Have a discussion of musical terminology.
(d) Get into a food fight.

7. What is Ed reading?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An advertisement for men's cologne.

8. What does Alan share with Arnold?
(a) That Laurel made a pass at Alan.
(b) That Alan is in love with Ed.
(c) That Alan was leaving Arnold.
(d) That Alan and Laurel have decided they love each other.

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

10. What does Laurel try to hide?
(a) That she is actually a lesbian.
(b) That she is HIV positive.
(c) That she does not love Ed.
(d) That she is attracted to gay men.

11. Where is Laurel visiting Arnold?
(a) At a sushi bar.
(b) At the club where Arnold is preparing to go onstage.
(c) At Arnold's home.
(d) In the gay bar, International.

12. To what does Arnold compare the loss of Alan?
(a) Arnold's grief over losing Alan is comparable to his mother's grief over losing her husband.
(b) Losing a dog with whom Arnold grew up.
(c) Like losing one's own life.
(d) He makes no comparison because nothing can compare to the loss of Alan.

13. Why does Laurel want Arnold and Alan to rise?
(a) She does not care if they arise.
(b) To play doubles in tennis against her and Ed.
(c) To play a pick-up game of basketball.
(d) To eat breakfast.

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

15. What conversational technique is continued in this scene?
(a) Just thoughts in each character's mind.
(b) Fugue style overlap.
(c) A round-robin technique.
(d) Indirect quoting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Laurel calling?

2. What did Ed used to call Arnold's bedroom?

3. About what is Laurel upset?

4. Where is Laurel on the day after the weekend that Alan and Arnold visited Ed and her?

5. What is the day when this act opens?

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