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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author seem to be revealing in this scene?
(a) That Alan is an unsavory person.
(b) The fact that Ed is solidly heterosexual.
(c) That Laurel secretly wishes to sleep with Arnold.
(d) More of the characters' vulnerabilities and emotional states.

3. What crisis that was just emerging during the writing of this play did the author seem to have in mind when writing this play?
(a) None.
(b) The Cuban Missle Crisis.
(c) AIDS.
(d) The invasion of Poland.

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

5. 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 it was too short.
(d) That she wishes it had never happened.

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

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

8. What has Laurel done?
(a) Gotten pregnant by Arnold.
(b) Called Arnold.
(c) Left Ed.
(d) Re-decorated the master bath.

9. Why is Mrs. Beckoff coming to visit Arnold?
(a) For her biannual visit.
(b) To help Arnold legitimize his home for the social worker's visit.
(c) To inspect the home for approving David's adoption.
(d) To go to Alan's funeral with her son, Arnold.

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

11. Why is Arnold adopting David?
(a) Because David is gay.
(b) Because David is his biological son.
(c) Because David was living on the streets.
(d) Because it is a goal that Arnold and Alan shared.

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

13. Who calls Arnold?
(a) Murray.
(b) Alan.
(c) Ed.
(d) Laurel.

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

15. What might be a theme of this particularly scene?
(a) That one should belong to an indoor tennis club.
(b) This brief scene really didn't have a particular theme.
(c) That jealousy can occur in gay or straight relationships.
(d) That the weekend can be pretty dull without some partner swapping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alan share with Arnold?

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

3. What is Mrs. Beckoff's main concern about Arnold adopting David?

4. What has the weekend stirred up?

5. Upon what do all four characters on stage agree?

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