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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Martha say she has to put on her eyes since getting married?
(a) Blinders
(b) Rose-tinted glasses
(c) False eyelashes
(d) Windshield wipers

2. What kind of animal does Honey pretend to be when she enters the room?
(a) A rabbit
(b) A puppy
(c) A cat
(d) A squirrel

3. Which is not a game that Honey and George talk about having played?
(a) Curl-Up-On-the-Floor
(b) Snap the Dragon
(c) Up the Chuck
(d) Peel the Label

4. What is Honey doing in her sleep, according to George?
(a) Crying
(b) Snoring
(c) Sucking her thumb
(d) Talking

5. In what liquor does George tell Martha to put the flowers?
(a) Bourbon
(b) Gin
(c) Vodka
(d) Scotch

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

7. Where does Martha say she keeps her tears?
(a) In a reliquary
(b) In ice trays
(c) In the toilet cistern
(d) In the shower

8. Where was George sailing past when he saw the moon come back up after going down?
(a) Tripoli
(b) Cape Cod
(c) St. Croix
(d) Majorca

9. Which country does George warn against when he returns to the room?
(a) India
(b) Canada
(c) Russia
(d) China

10. What type of weapon does Martha call herself when Nick says she hurt him?
(a) A gatling gun
(b) An atomic bomb
(c) A cluster bomb
(d) A flame thrower

11. According to Martha and George, which two ideas are getting confused?
(a) Love and Fear
(b) Love and Hate
(c) Hope and Delusion
(d) Truth and Illusion

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

13. What contest does George say that Martha won twenty-five years ago?
(a) A dance marathon
(b) A pie-eating contest
(c) A triathalon
(d) A beauty pagaent

14. What does George do with his book in the last moment of Act 2?
(a) Cries into it
(b) Tear it apart
(c) Continuess reading it
(d) Throws it across the room

15. What onomatopoetic word does Martha use repeatedly to describe the moment she realized George was a lost cause?
(a) Boom
(b) Snap
(c) Crash
(d) Pop

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick think has happened to Martha when he comes downstairs in Act 3?

2. Which of the following is not among the descriptors George uses to describe Martha during this section?

3. Which of the following is not a nickname that George gives to Honey during the dancing?

4. Which of the follow is not among the things that Martha says George can do for her, as she tells Nick that she loves him?

5. What would Martha's father not allow George to do recently?

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