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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What department is Nick actually in?
(a) Political Science
(b) Biology
(c) English
(d) Physics

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

3. What does Nick think women discuss when in the bathroom together?
(a) Their men
(b) Themselves
(c) Sex
(d) Fashion

4. Who answers the door when Nick and Honey arrive?
(a) Both
(b) Neither
(c) Martha
(d) George

5. Why did George run the History Department for four years?
(a) Martha's father was on sabatical
(b) Martha's father took ill
(c) Everyone was in the War
(d) He published a popular historical novel

6. How do the ages of George and Martha compare?
(a) Martha is six years older than George
(b) George is three years older than Martha
(c) They are approximately the same age
(d) George is ten years older than Martha

7. Which studio does Martha say made the film she is referencing?
(a) Paramount
(b) MGM
(c) Warner Brothers
(d) She doesn't recall

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

9. What game did Nick and Honey play when they were younger?
(a) Doctor
(b) Truth or Dare
(c) Hide and Seek
(d) Spin the Bottle

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

11. What was George's relationship to the President of the university when Martha married him?
(a) Whipping boy
(b) Gopher
(c) Heir-apparent
(d) Yes man

12. What is Martha doing for Honey at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Washing her dress
(b) Bringing her aspirin
(c) Making her coffee
(d) Holding her hair

13. Between which two colors do Martha and George argue, regarding their son's eyes?
(a) Green and Brown
(b) Blue and Green
(c) Blue and Hazel
(d) Brown and Hazel

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

15. How does George silence Martha as she talks about his failure to take over the department?
(a) He shoots at her with a toy gun
(b) He breaks a bottle over the bar
(c) He leaves the room
(d) He slaps her

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which two characters sing "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" at the end of the first act?

3. According to George,the way to a man's heart is ___________________.

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

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

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