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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Martha suggests that George should have listened to her in the bathroom, what does he suggest he would have done instead?
(a) Peeked
(b) Recorded
(c) Barged in
(d) Barricaded the door

2. What attribute makes Martha's stepmother like a witch?
(a) Her warts
(b) Her temper
(c) Her complexion
(d) Her love of cats

3. What nationality does George say the man who painted their abstract painting is?
(a) Italian
(b) German
(c) British
(d) Greek

4. In Nick's mock plan for taking over the university, as what does he want to establish himself?
(a) A nonentity
(b) A power-broker
(c) A stumbling block
(d) An inevitability

5. What is the faculty sport, according to George?
(a) Follow the Chair
(b) Musical Beds
(c) Snipe and Sorry
(d) Publish or Die

6. To what literary heroine does Martha compare herself near the end of Act 1?
(a) Anna Karenina
(b) Moll Flanders
(c) Lady Chatterly
(d) Ophelia

7. How many drinks does Martha finish in this section?
(a) Three
(b) One
(c) None
(d) Two

8. What does George tell Martha he wants her to stop doing?
(a) Intentionally mispronouncing words
(b) Springing things on him
(c) Telling lies to his colleagues
(d) Drinking

9. Which of the following is not a drunken act that George warns Martha against?
(a) Passing out
(b) Taking off her clothes
(c) Driving off
(d) Throwing up

10. Where does George tell Nick and Honey to put their coats?
(a) The Floor
(b) The Bedroom
(c) Anywhere
(d) The Hall Closet

11. Which actress starred in the film that Martha is trying to think of?
(a) Grace Kelly
(b) Lotte Lenya
(c) Bette Davis
(d) Joan Crawford

12. According to George at the end of Act 1, what is Martha at heart?
(a) A Romantic
(b) A Floozy
(c) A Man
(d) A Libertine

13. What state of being does Martha accuse George of having?
(a) Nonexistence
(b) Monolithic dominance
(c) Smallness
(d) Transcendance

14. How old does George tell Nick Martha is?
(a) Forty-five
(b) Seventy
(c) Twenty
(d) One hundred and twenty-five

15. From which department is the young professor who's coming with his wife to the house, according to Martha?
(a) Divinity
(b) Mathematics
(c) English
(d) Political Science

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a term that George uses to describe his son?

2. What did George do at the party when someone sang the Virginia Woolf song, according to Martha?

3. What reason does Nick give for marrying Honey at the beginning of Act 2?

4. What does George accuse Martha of doing during these faculty parties?

5. What game did Nick and Honey play when they were younger?

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