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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon what do all four characters on stage agree?
(a) That there is always one person who loves one more than the other.
(b) That there is no explaining the complexities of love.
(c) That Arnold and Alan love each other.
(d) That it's time to get up and have some dinner.

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

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

5. What characters the apartment and why did they leave?
(a) Ed and Mrs. Beckoff left to go to the lawyer's office.
(b) Ed and Mrs. Beckoff left to give Arnold a chance to talk to David about the adoption.
(c) Ed and Arnold left to have privacy.
(d) David and Ed have left the apartment so that Arnold and Mrs. Beckoff can have some privacy.

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

7. What are Arnold and Alan more resistant to than eating breakfast?
(a) Playing tennis.
(b) Cooking breakfast.
(c) Going to church.
(d) Catching the early ferry.

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

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

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

11. About what is Laurel upset?
(a) Learning that Ed initiated the phone calls to Arnold.
(b) Ed having sex with Alan.
(c) That she didn't get pregnant that weekend.
(d) That Ed still hasn't finished his latest novel.

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

13. 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 learn how to serve a ball in tennis as well as Arnold can.
(d) To become pregnant by Arnold since Ed is sterile.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Alan?

2. What is Laurel's news?

3. What does David encourage Ed to do and what is Ed's response?

4. According to David, how has Arnold been since Alan's death?

5. What does Arnold say happened to Alan?

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