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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Martha describe George's arguments during this scene?
(a) Vicious
(b) Petty
(c) Sophmoric
(d) Convoluted

2. What language does George begin speaking partway through Martha's description of their son?
(a) French
(b) Latin
(c) Greek
(d) German

3. What does Honey do when she realizes Nick told George about her hysterical pregnancy?
(a) She passes out
(b) She throws up
(c) She slaps him
(d) She storms out of the house

4. Where is Honey sleeping at the end of Act 2?
(a) The hall
(b) The bathroom
(c) The spare bedroom
(d) The lawn

5. As what does George say Martha uses their son?
(a) As a wallet
(b) As a club
(c) As a lover
(d) As a shoulder to cry on

6. Honey obliquely mentions her hysterical pregnancy when she comes back into the room, but she calls it something else. What does she call it?
(a) Anemia
(b) Appendicitis
(c) Dyspepsia
(d) A toothache

7. When can George handle Martha best, does he say?
(a) When he's drunk
(b) When she's asleep
(c) When they're in public
(d) When they're alone

8. Which of the following is not something to which Martha compares herself in her Act 3 monologue?
(a) A pussycat
(b) A creeping vine
(c) A vinegary wine
(d) An old shoe

9. What animal scared George and Martha's son, causing him to break his arm?
(a) A dog
(b) A goat
(c) A chicken
(d) A cow

10. As Nick attacks George for betraying him, George says that he hates what?
(a) Inconsistency
(b) Misery
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) Pathos

11. What would Martha's father not allow George to do recently?
(a) Take a sabbatical abroad
(b) Teach a course in modern German history
(c) Quit
(d) Publish a book

12. How do George and Martha agree to describe the final passage of the night?
(a) Exorcism
(b) Total war
(c) Endgame
(d) Dies Irae

13. What does Martha accuse George of doing when she returns to the room?
(a) Drinking her booze
(b) Antagonizing Nick
(c) Making Honey throw up
(d) Cheating on her

14. What did George do with the telegram?
(a) He framed it
(b) He burned it
(c) He tore it up
(d) He ate it

15. What part of George is broken according to Nick?
(a) His heart
(b) His neck
(c) His back
(d) His mind

Short Answer Questions

1. When, according to George,did he receive the fateful telegram?

2. Which of the following is not on the list of dreadful things waiting for their son when he returns home in the summer?

3. Where does Martha say she keeps her tears?

4. Where does George say he picked the flowers?

5. What is Honey doing in her sleep, according to George?

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