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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of room do the men enter as they are coming into the hotel room?
(a) Kitchenette.
(b) Bathroom.
(c) Bedroom.
(d) Closet.

2. Who follows Madame Rosepettle around the room?
(a) The bellboys.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Albert Rosepettle.

3. Which word describes the hotel where Scene 1 takes place?
(a) Seedy.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Minimal.
(d) Tight.

4. What quality does Madame Rosepettle admit to not being?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Trustworthy.
(c) Funny.
(d) Loyal.

5. What does Madame Rosepettle say about the tip she gives the bellboys?
(a) It is very valuable.
(b) They don't deserve it.
(c) It is all she has.
(d) They earned it with their hard work.

6. Who berates the men in the hotel room?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Madame Rosepettle.
(c) Madame Rosepettle's parrot.
(d) Rosalie.

7. When Madame Rosepettle speaks to her son, how does he answer her?
(a) Hesitantly.
(b) Assertively.
(c) Harshly.
(d) Kindly.

8. Where does the play take place?
(a) Paris.
(b) Miami.
(c) Buenos Aires.
(d) Havana.

9. How can the type of theater Kopit tries to depict be characterized?
(a) Practical.
(b) Realist.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Logical.

10. In what year is this play written?
(a) 2009.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1981.

11. What is the reaction from the men to the object in the hotel room?
(a) They do not react.
(b) They are horrified.
(c) They scream and run away.
(d) They laugh.

12. What happens to the object after something is broken off of it?
(a) It is placed on the bed.
(b) It becomes much lighter.
(c) It falls to the ground.
(d) Nothing.

13. What does Madame Rosepettle ask the bellboys about in the harbor?
(a) A castle.
(b) A yacht.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A seal.

14. What happens to the group of bellboys as more things are moved into the hotel room?
(a) It lifts off the ground.
(b) It shrinks.
(c) It grows.
(d) It moves further away from Madame Rosepettle.

15. What word can describe the object the men are moving into the hotel room at the beginning of the play?
(a) Heavy.
(b) Extravagant.
(c) Antique.
(d) Decorative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary technique does Kopit use in the final few lines of Scene 1?

2. What does the additional man arrive with in the hotel room?

3. Does Jonathan deliberately try to make the bellboys upset?

4. Who scolds the men in the hotel room?

5. Which character is best described as wealthy, bossy, and eccentric?

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