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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. Who is the president as named in this scene?
(a) Truman.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Hoover.

2. What does Edna think she is turning into?
(a) A dingbat.
(b) A workaholic.
(c) An overweight wife.
(d) A nag.

3. Why does Joe think the workers need to strike?
(a) So the workers can have extra money for vacations.
(b) He doesn't. He believes striking is for losers.
(c) The workers are supporting the company rather than the family.
(d) Because it makes the bosses look bad.

4. How does Odets foreshadow some of the main characters in the play?
(a) Makes them members of the workers' committee.
(b) Reveals each one slowly as the "voice."
(c) Has them all speak in Scene 1.
(d) Blacklists them for expulsion from the union.

5. What does Joe bring home from the war?
(a) A medal.
(b) An angry disposition.
(c) Shrapnel.
(d) A new wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lefty?

2. Why is the research in Laboratory A so important at the time of the play?

3. What is Fayette's attitude about death and war?

4. What does Edna think about strikes?

5. What proof does Joe offer to contest Fatt's suggestion that workers had hot suppers to go home to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Scene 6 foreshadow what will happen to Benjamin?

2. How does Fatt attempt to dissuade workers from disagreeing with him?

3. What does Sid think about war and education?

4. What is the benefit of having a speaker with experience with a strike talk to the workers?

5. Is Fatt respected by the workers?

6. How does Fatt try to dismiss the workers?

7. What is Miller's response to the job change?

8. What are some of the reasons that Fayette selects Miller for the new project?

9. What, if anything, justifies Fatt's use of a spy to avoid a strike?

10. Why is the Voice's evidence that Clayton is a spy more credible than Clayton's denials?

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