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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Martha live alone with her father for most of her early life?
(a) Her mother disappeared for weeks on end
(b) Her mother died early
(c) Her mother and father divorced
(d) She was adopted

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

4. Which of these is not a French insult that George and Martha hurl at each other?
(a) Cochon
(b) Putain
(c) Cyclope
(d) Bete

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What saying does Honey drink by?

3. What does Honey say Martha is doing upstairs?

4. What term does George use to describe the faculty parties they have to attend?

5. How old is Nick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Martha's plan for the rest of the night, and why aren't she and George going to bed?

2. What do George and Martha do with their tears?

3. What is George's reasoning that his son hates Martha?

4. Why does George kill their son?

5. How does George explain his son's habit of throwing up?

6. What is George's explanation of the abstract painting in his house?

7. What arrangement do Martha and George come to at the end of their argument and how does the arrangement seem to suit them?

8. Describe the cloistered world that George and Martha have created at the beginning of the play.

9. What is the last game and how does George prepare for it?

10. Describe Honey as she enters the scene.

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