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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides football, at what other sport is Nick adept?
(a) Boxing
(b) Polo
(c) Baseball
(d) Golf

2. With what does George say he is preoccupied?
(a) Biology
(b) Sex
(c) History
(d) Children

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

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

5. How does George refer to his arguments with Martha while alone with Nick?
(a) Sparring
(b) Making love
(c) Exercising
(d) Performing

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

7. How does Nick mispronounce the word "gaggle?"
(a) Naggle
(b) Gargle
(c) Goggle
(d) Gangle

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

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

10. Against which innovation does George speak out vehemently?
(a) Brain imaging
(b) Space exploration
(c) Nuclear fussion
(d) Genetic modification

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

12. About what time of the day does the play begin?
(a) Six o'clock at night
(b) Midnight
(c) Ten o'clock at night
(d) Two o'clock in the morning

13. 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

14. Which two cultures does George cite as models for responsible drinking?
(a) Arabs and Italians
(b) Indians and Greeks
(c) Jews and Irish
(d) Chinese and French

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Martha now want to talk?

2. What was George's relationship to the President of the university when Martha married him?

3. In Nick's mock plan for taking over the university, as what does he want to establish himself?

4. What does Nick think women discuss when in the bathroom together?

5. What is the faculty sport, according to George?

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