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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the girl like Miller from Scene 3?
(a) She just got a raise.
(b) She just lost her job.
(c) She works in a laboratory.
(d) She does not smoke or drink.

2. What is the reason Dr. Barnes gives Benjamin for closing his ward?
(a) Change in services.
(b) Inadequate number of patients.
(c) Budget deficit.
(d) Loss of staff.

3. What makes Clayton notorious?
(a) He has a mean streak.
(b) He has busted unions in several industries.
(c) He was a Gunman for Fatt.
(d) His father was a famous union organizer.

4. Where do Florence and Sid get the scene they act out?
(a) A high school play.
(b) The dialogue in a book.
(c) A radio program.
(d) From the movies.

5. What metaphor for time does Clayton use to discourage a strike?
(a) Baking bread.
(b) Unripe fruit.
(c) Roasting nuts.
(d) Basting meat.

6. In Scene 5, what does Fatt suggest the workers do instead of complain?
(a) Consider the records of taxi cab strikes in other cities.
(b) Accept whatever he tells them.
(c) Go home and think about striking overnight.
(d) Read the newspapers.

7. In Scene 5, what city does Fatt want the workers to hear about?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) New York.

8. Where does Florence work?
(a) Behind the counter.
(b) Next to the movie theater.
(c) In a nursing home.
(d) In the steel plant.

9. What metaphor do Benjamin and Dr. Barnes use to describe Benjamin's experiences with anti-Semitism?
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Vigorous exercise.
(c) Malignant disease.
(d) Stormy weather.

10. Who does Fatt ask to stop the talkative Voice?
(a) Gunman.
(b) Committee members.
(c) No one. He let him talk.
(d) His supporters in the audience.

11. Who are the hack and his girl?
(a) Irv and Edna.
(b) Joe and Edna.
(c) Irv and Florence.
(d) Sid and Florence.

12. Why does Benjamin choose not to leave the United States?
(a) He cannot get a passport.
(b) He cannot afford to leave the country.
(c) He wants to fight for workers' rights in the United States.
(d) His wife does not want to leave her family.

13. What does Sid do while thinking about Florence before he sees her?
(a) He fixes a flat tire.
(b) He stops and buys her an engagement ring.
(c) He runs into a beer truck.
(d) He gets a ticket for running a red light.

14. At what school does Benjamin first experience discrimination?
(a) Washington University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

15. How does Benjamin's unexpected job loss affect his understanding of the world?
(a) He realizes he has a responsibility to change the world.
(b) His understanding remains unchanged.
(c) He understands he is powerless to change the world.
(d) It is just another bad day for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does Benjamin learn about theory versus life experience?

2. What does Sid's brother do to deal with the trying economic times?

3. What does the hack do for a living?

4. What makes the speaker different from other workers?

5. What animal does Sid compare himself to?

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