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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandpa finally do?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Reaches Alice.
(c) Tells Tony to leave.
(d) Pays Mr. Henderson.

2. What is Grandpa doing, amid all the chaos in the room?
(a) He is reading a book.
(b) He is taking a nap.
(c) He throws feather darts at a target.
(d) He is putting together a puzzle.

3. Where might Tony have gotten the idea to leave the firm?
(a) From his desire to have more money.
(b) From his father.
(c) From spending time with the Sycamores.
(d) From his friends.

4. What does Essie want Ed to do?
(a) Return as soon as possible so that he can play the xylophone for her lesson with Mr. Kolenkhov.
(b) Go to work and enjoy himself.
(c) Quit his job and stay at home with her, dancing.
(d) Call the police and tell them that a strange man is following him.

5. How does Grandpa's help change Mr. Kirby?
(a) Grandpa excites him.
(b) Grandpa calms him down.
(c) Grandpa makes him nervous.
(d) Grandpa angers him.

6. What suddenly happens?
(a) The Kirbys make a run for it.
(b) The apartment explodes.
(c) Mr. Henderson arrives to arrest Grandpa.
(d) The agency men call in reinforcements.

7. Who has come to find Tony?
(a) The agency men.
(b) Mr. Kirby.
(c) Mr. Henderson.
(d) Alice.

8. What happens as the Kirbys prepare to leave?
(a) The house explodes.
(b) Three men from the Justice Department arrive.
(c) Mr. Kirby tells his wife they are no longer leaving.
(d) Mrs. Kirby changes her mind and wants to stay.

9. What has Grand Duchess Olga done for the family?
(a) Painted a family portrait.
(b) Prepared blintzes.
(c) Performed a ballet solo.
(d) Sung a song in Russian.

10. What does Rheba recall?
(a) Mrs. Sycamore screaming for her life when they handcuffed her.
(b) Mrs. Kirby's mortification at being in the same cell with a strip-tease artist who sang as the dignified Mrs. Kirby disrobed in the jail.
(c) How the family had been asking for trouble for many years, and now it had finally come.
(d) When she was first hired by the Sycamores.

11. Why is the visit unexpected?
(a) She had forgotten her gin bottle in the living room.
(b) He was supposed to work late.
(c) Grandpa thought he had chased him away for good.
(d) They have come one night too early for their dinner invitation.

12. Why does Paul descend again into the basement?
(a) He is nervous about being around too many people.
(b) He is afraid of open spaces.
(c) To finish the fireworks order that must be driven to Mount Vernon tomorrow in time for the Fourth of July.
(d) He is allergic to sunlight.

13. To what does the family agree?
(a) Go out to dinner, so Alice and Tony may have a quiet dinner with his parents, alone.
(b) To act naturally.
(c) To put on a performance for Tony's parents.
(d) Behave in the company of Tony's parents.

14. How does Mr. Kirby react when Tony tells him he plans to leave the family firm?
(a) He is thrilled.
(b) He is sad.
(c) He is shocked.
(d) He is angry.

15. Who will stay at least through dinner?
(a) The agency men.
(b) Tony.
(c) Mr. Kirby.
(d) Mr. Henderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alice preparing to do?

2. What does Ed need to do?

3. What is Olga anxious to do?

4. What does the word game reveal?

5. What is Penny doing as the scene opens?

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