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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice ask her family to do?
(a) To please behave tonight.
(b) To hide in their rooms.
(c) To keep Tony away from her.
(d) To leave the house.

2. From where do Paul Sycamore and Mr. DePinna emerge?
(a) The basement.
(b) The garage.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The second floor.

3. What does Alice declare?
(a) The fireworks' red glow is beautiful.
(b) The dance is beautiful.
(c) The painting is the most beautiful one she has ever seen.
(d) She wants to begin reading the book immediately.

4. What genre of play is "You Can't Take It With You?"
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Romantic comedy.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Science fiction.

5. Where does Alice go?
(a) Into the living room.
(b) To Tony's car.
(c) Into the basement.
(d) To her room.

6. What does Alice initially refuse?
(a) To spend time with her family.
(b) To go to work.
(c) To date Tony.
(d) Tony's proposal.

7. Why is Essie Carmichael making candy?
(a) She loves candy.
(b) Her mother sells candy from the home.
(c) It is one of her many hobbies.
(d) Her husband, Ed, has taken orders for the sweets that need to be filled today.

8. How does Alice feel when she tells Tony she cannot marry him?
(a) She feels tired.
(b) She feels excited.
(c) She feels unsure.
(d) She feels exasperated.

9. Why must the two part for the evening?
(a) It is late.
(b) They are in an argument.
(c) They have broken up.
(d) Alice's family does not like Tony.

10. Why does Ed ask Rheba about the dinner menu?
(a) He wants to make sure his favorite dessert, apple pie, is included on it.
(b) He is a very picky eater.
(c) He has a strong sense of curiosity.
(d) So that he may begin the typesetting.

11. What do the family members think of Tony?
(a) They do not like him.
(b) They are unsure if he is right for Alice.
(c) They are very accepting of him.
(d) They do not trust him.

12. What does Grandpa ask God to allow?
(a) The family to continue living in the manner it has become used to.
(b) The basement to be easily repaired.
(c) Paul and Mr. DePinna to stop making fireworks.
(d) That Mr. Henderson leaves them alone.

13. Who does Alice find?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

14. How might Tony feel about being interrupted by Alice's family members?
(a) Content and not bothered.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Nervous.

15. What is the purpose of the cluttered and chaotic living room of Grandpa Vanderhof?
(a) The characters are headed here in the first scene.
(b) It is the setting for part of the first scene.
(c) It is where the play opens.
(d) The characters discuss this location in the first scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandpa enjoy doing?

2. Why does Alice say about everything in the world?

3. What else does Alice declare?

4. On what does Ed work?

5. From what type of family does Alice come?

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