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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 does Arnold do in order to have some time to think over Ed and his relationship?
(a) Tells Ed he has to talk to his astrologer again about their relationship.
(b) Asks Ed to contact him in a few weeks.
(c) Tells Ed to meet him outside the back but leaves out the front.
(d) Asks Ed to go get the car.

2. What has taken Ed by surprise?
(a) That Arnold has lost 30 pounds.
(b) That Laurel and Alan are cousins.
(c) That he knew Alan in elementary school.
(d) That Arnold is involved with someone new.

3. Who is waiting for a phone call from Ed?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Tom.
(c) Lauren.
(d) Jacs.

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

5. How does Ed respond when he answers the phone?
(a) He lets the phone ring.
(b) He is excited.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He is wary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ed dating?

2. What is the setting at the opening of the play?

3. What is Alan's response to Arnold's declaration?

4. Whom does Ed resent?

5. What happens when Arnold bends over to set a beer can down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Arnold joins Ed and David on the park bench?

2. Why do you think Ed Reiss insists that he dates women as well as men?

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

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

5. How does the conversation end?

6. Why does Ed come to the theatre and what happens at the beginning of the conversation?

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

8. With whom is Ed speaking and what is the content of the conversation?

9. Describe a little about Alan and also the relationship between Alan and Arnold.

10. How does this act end?

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