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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does David hope about Ed and Arnold?
(a) That they will not let Mrs. Beckoff live there.
(b) David expresses no particular thoughts about Arnold and Ed.
(c) That they will not start a relationship.
(d) That they will rekindle their relationship.

3. What did Ed used to call Arnold's bedroom?
(a) The Spaceship.
(b) The Nursery.
(c) The XXX Room.
(d) The Pigpen.

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

5. What does Arnold say happened to Alan?
(a) Alan developed AIDS and died.
(b) Alan had been killed in the street by some young men who hate homosexuals.
(c) Alan died during surgery for injuries he suffered in a car accident.
(d) Alan didn't really die; he ran off with another man and Arnold just thinks of Alan as dead.

6. What has the weekend stirred up?
(a) A love triangle.
(b) A feeling of attraction between Ed and Alan.
(c) Hidden anger between Ed and Arnold.
(d) Insecurites in each person.

7. For what do Laurel and Alan probe?
(a) For evidence of Arnold being HIV positive.
(b) For an admission from Arnold that he is seeing another man besides Alan.
(c) Evidence that Ed is not gay.
(d) Details of the time that Ed and Arnold spent in bed today.

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

9. Who discuss a similar subject of that between Ed and Laurel?
(a) Alan and Arnold.
(b) Arnold and Laurel.
(c) Alan and Murray.
(d) No one.

10. 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 will want Mrs. Beckoff to treat David like a grandson.
(d) That Arnold cannot afford to financially support a child.

11. One is the main action in this scene?
(a) An exploration of the relationship between each person of the two couples.
(b) The harmony of the four getting along to create dinner.
(c) The revelation that Arnold and Ed plan to sneak off to have sex.
(d) The arrival of two other young couples and subsequent confusion.

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

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

14. Who does David respect tremendously?
(a) Mrs. Beckoff.
(b) His art teacher.
(c) Ed.
(d) Arnold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How might one characterize Laurel's motive for inviting Arnold over for the weekend?

2. Where do Laurel's parents live?

3. Of what do both couples agree?

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

5. What might be a theme of this particularly scene?

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