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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 has Grandpa never done?
(a) Participated in jury duty.
(b) Worked.
(c) Paid parking tickets.
(d) Paid any income taxes.

2. What must Alice and Tony do?
(a) Part for the evening.
(b) Get packed to run away.
(c) Say goodbye and end their relationship.
(d) Face her family.

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

4. 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) The characters discuss this location in the first scene.
(c) It is the setting for part of the first scene.
(d) It is where the play opens.

5. To what has Grandpa not responded?
(a) The police station's letters regarding his unpaid parking tickets.
(b) Phone calls from the courthouse.
(c) The government's letters regarding his tax evasion.
(d) Requests for him to find a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Alice compared to the rest of her family?

2. How might Tony's family compare to Alice's?

3. How are the characters introduced?

4. What is unusual about the apartment?

5. Whose son is Tony?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Alice directing her family? Why is she doing this?

2. What is known about Tony? What does Alice ask of her family, regarding Tony? Why does she ask this of them?

3. How has this family become so quirky and unusual?

4. What happens when the doorbell rings? How does this add to the comedic feeling of the play?

5. What does Alice's father do when she comes into the room? Why does he do this?

6. What is realized about both families? How might this affect Alice and Tony's relationship?

7. How does the scene become more confusing? How would this add more stress to Alice's already stressed-out life?

8. Why does Alice relent?

9. Describe the dinner. How does this begin to heal the wounds of the night before?

10. What has happened to both of the families? What might be the audience's reaction to this news?

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