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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many park benches are on the stage at the beginning of the play?
(a) Four
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three

2. Who does Peter consider to be the finer writer when Jerry gives him a choice?
(a) Tolstoy
(b) Freud
(c) Marquand
(d) Baudelaire

3. To what is the landlady compared?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A watchdog.
(c) A mother hen.
(d) A princess.

4. What does Jerry ask Peter if he has?
(a) Cats
(b) Children
(c) Parakeets
(d) Dogs

5. Where does Jerry find Peter?
(a) In a store.
(b) In the park.
(c) In the subway station.
(d) In a garden.

6. What does Peter claim in response?
(a) He knows about Jerry's kids.
(b) He has seen those cards.
(c) He does not care about Jerry's parents.
(d) He has seen many picture frames.

7. Why does he feel this way?
(a) He does not like to listen to people talk about their lives.
(b) He enjoys Jerry's company.
(c) This stranger is asking him such personal questions.
(d) Jerry is doing so much talking.

8. What does Jerry begin?
(a) Another long monologue about living in New York.
(b) Another long monologue about a vacation he had taken.
(c) Another long monologue about his job.
(d) Another long monologue about the zoo.

9. What does Jerry say when Peter admits to being married?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

10. What else does Jerry want to know about Peter?
(a) Why his wife is not with him.
(b) Where he is coming from.
(c) Where his children are right now.
(d) Why he lives in New York City.

11. How is Peter at this moment?
(a) Bored.
(b) Still uncomfortable.
(c) Tired.
(d) Comfortable.

12. Where does Peter do this?
(a) At a small private practice.
(b) At a large car dealership.
(c) At a small textbook publishing house.
(d) At a large law firm.

13. What has Jerry only done once?
(a) Driven a car.
(b) Sat in the park.
(c) Gone up into the Empire State Building.
(d) Been with a woman.

14. Of whom does Jerry speak?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her cat.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her dog.

15. Where does a person have to go this distance?
(a) Out of his way.
(b) Towards the park.
(c) On his way.
(d) Away from the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wears tweeds and smokes a pipe?

2. The setting of trees and a single park bench is so simple. On what does the audience focus?

3. Peter carries no more than ________ with him at any time.

4. What does Jerry say his landlady drinks in the afternoon?

5. Where did Jerry's mom go when she left?

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