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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of these is not among the topics of which George claims to have limited knowledge?
(a) Practical morality
(b) National boundaries
(c) International cuisine
(d) Ocean levels

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

4. What attribute of Nick and Honey's does George comment on as they ring the doorbell?
(a) Their punctuality
(b) Their youthful glow
(c) Their good manners
(d) Their natual grace

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

6. What does NIck have to drink?
(a) Water
(b) Gin and tonic
(c) Bourbon
(d) Scotch

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

8. What did George do at the party when someone sang the Virginia Woolf song, according to Martha?
(a) Laugh
(b) Sing
(c) Sulk
(d) Smile

9. What does Martha do with chromosomes, according to George?
(a) Pours them on her cereal
(b) Uses them as bath crystals
(c) Wears them like earrings
(d) Ignores them

10. Which of the following is not a university to which George compares the play's university?
(a) Sorbonne
(b) Cambridge
(c) M.I.T.
(d) Moscow U.

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

12. To what poet does Martha compare George?
(a) Ted Hughes
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) e.e. cummings

13. What liquor did George's school friend mispronounce?
(a) Bourbon
(b) Gin
(c) Shiraz
(d) Tequila

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

15. To what type of animal does George compare Martha's father?
(a) A cat
(b) A shark
(c) A bear
(d) A mouse

Short Answer Questions

1. How old will George and Martha's son be tomorrow?

2. How does George refer to Martha's new outfit?

3. What does Honey say Martha is doing upstairs?

4. Where does George tell Nick and Honey to put their coats?

5. How old does George tell Nick Martha is?

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