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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Mama feels that Big Daddy is _____________?
(a) Insensitive
(b) Despotic
(c) Handsome
(d) Magnetic

2. Big Daddy thinks he has escaped ______________________.
(a) A diagnosis of cancer
(b) A malaria epidemic
(c) Divorce from Big Mama
(d) A stock market crash

3. What is Reverend Tooker's topic of conversation?
(a) His sermon for next Sunday
(b) The sin of abortion
(c) Recent donations to the church
(d) The work of the missions

4. What job did Brick recently quit?
(a) Accountant
(b) Lawyer
(c) Football coach
(d) Sports Announcer

5. What does Brick decide to tell Big Daddy tonight?
(a) The truth about his marriage
(b) The truth about Skipper
(c) The truth about his drinking
(d) The truth about his finances

6. What do the household staff members bring into the room?
(a) Birthday cake and champagne
(b) More chairs
(c) Party guests
(d) Hors d'ouevres

7. What does Big Daddy withhold from Brick?
(a) A drink
(b) Dinner
(c) His crutch
(d) A check

8. Who does Big Daddy want to have a conversation with now?
(a) Big Mama
(b) Gooper
(c) Maggie
(d) Brick

9. What is the setting of Act 2?
(a) The kitchen
(b) A den
(c) The veranda
(d) A bedroom

10. When does Big Daddy say that Brick began to drink?
(a) When Skipper died
(b) When he lost his job
(c) When Big Daddy got sick
(d) When Maggie had a miscarriage

11. Who are the usual occupants of the room?
(a) Gooper and Mae
(b) Big Daddy and Big Mama
(c) The no-necked monsters
(d) Brick and Maggie

12. What was Big Daddy's second job at the plantation?
(a) Gardener
(b) Cook
(c) Stable boy
(d) Overseer

13. How many acres does the Pollitt plantation cover?
(a) 54,000
(b) 28,000
(c) 10,000
(d) 100,000

14. Big Daddy tells Big Mama that she is no longer in charge of the plantation because ________________________.
(a) He is healthy now
(b) He has left it to Gooper
(c) He has sold it
(d) He has left it to Brick

15. Big Daddy admits that making love to Big Mama always ______________ him.
(a) repulsed
(b) excited
(c) calmed
(d) validated

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Big Mama's physical appearance?

2. What role does Big Mama hold in the family?

3. Who orders the no-neck monsters out of the room?

4. With what does Big Daddy tell Brick he is familiar?

5. What question has been puzzling Big Daddy lately?

(see the answer keys)

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