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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the response to the question?
(a) The vents are uncomfortable but warm.
(b) There is no gin for a Tom Collins.
(c) The water was never off.
(d) The person does not know the answer.

2. What does the singer finish singing?
(a) A rap song.
(b) A jazz song.
(c) A ballad.
(d) There is no singer in this scene.

3. How does Arnold try to justify the anonymous encounter?
(a) By pointing out that the man was a lot bigger than Arnold and so Arnold was intimidated.
(b) By saying he didn't know what the stranger was going to do.
(c) By saying it is an attempt at finding love.
(d) By saying he wanted to see what it was like to have sex with a man.

4. At what does Ed hint?
(a) That his is about to marry.
(b) That he needs to borrow a large sum of money from Arnold.
(c) That he has been tested HIV positive.
(d) The desire for a reconciliation with Arnold.

5. What is the time frame of this setting?
(a) The evening of the first day of Arnold and Alan's visit with Laurel and Ed.
(b) Just at sunrise.
(c) Three days after Arnold's visit to Laurel and Ed.
(d) A year after Arnold's visit to Laurel and Ed.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Laurel seem particularly smug?

2. How could Arnold's emotion be described when he is in the back room?

3. How does Arnold make a living?

4. Where are all of the characters in the opening of this scene?

5. Who plays a drag queen in this scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the term "fugue," and how it is applicable in this scene.

2. What is Mrs. Beckoff's response to news of the impending adoption of David?

3. What message is implied in Laurel's regret at not inviting Alan and Arnold to the wedding?

4. What might be a couple reasons why Laurel's plan is not successful?

5. Where are Ed and Alan and what are they doing?

6. What is happening from another part of the stage and how does it tie in with Arthur?

7. What point do you think the author may be making in this scene, as well as in others and why do you think the author wishes to make this point?

8. When scene 3 opens, who is on the stage and what is he doing?

9. Describe how Laurel is feeling. Do you think she has the right to feel this way?

10. What is Arthur going to do onstage?

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