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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Willy remember Ben giving him?
(a) Get out of the cities and fight for a fortune in Alaska.
(b) Go to Africa and prospect for diamonds.
(c) Open a diamond mine in Alaska.
(d) Get out of the cities and buy a ranch.

2. How has Willy's salary rate changed?
(a) He is to be paid according to a strict time sheet.
(b) His rate of commission has been reduced.
(c) He is no longer paid overtime.
(d) He is now on commission only like a beginner.

3. Why does Willy admire Dave Singleman?
(a) He brokers a sponsorship deal with the Yankees.
(b) Even at the age of eighty-four, he is a successful salesman.
(c) He travels in the smoking car and has green velvet slippers.
(d) He keeps his high sales figures until well into his nineties.

4. What difference would it have made to his life if Willy had formed his own business?
(a) He would have been able to work from home.
(b) He would have been able to travel in luxury.
(c) He would not have to leave home any more.
(d) He would have built a house on Long Island.

5. Where does Willy believe his company most needs him?
(a) In New England
(b) In New York
(c) In Yonkers
(d) In Florida

6. What derogatory comment does Biff make about Willy?
(a) That he has no talent for earning money.
(b) That he looks like a walrus.
(c) That he looks like a salesman.
(d) That he has no character.

7. For how long has Willy been a salesman for Howard's firm?
(a) Forty-three years
(b) Forty years
(c) Thirty-four years
(d) Thirty years

8. What does Biff need to do in order to avoid flunking Math?
(a) Apologize to Mr Birnbaum
(b) Finally hand in his Math assignments
(c) Become organized and study hard
(d) Bribe Mr Birnbaum

9. What is it about Willy that the woman says she likes?
(a) The smell of his after shave and his happy nature
(b) His sense of humor and because he is sweet
(c) The presents he gives her
(d) His big spending and his sense of humor

10. Where is the big match to be held?
(a) Ebbets Field
(b) Ebert's Field
(c) Wembley Stadium
(d) Madison Square Garden

11. According to Willy, what has left him unsettled and "temporary?"
(a) He never had a chance to get close to his father.
(b) Not being happy with Linda
(c) Worrying about the mortgage
(d) The wanderings around the countryside when he was a child

12. What happens as Willy is driving on the highway?
(a) He runs off the road.
(b) He allows the car to veer over the white line.
(c) A woman yells at him.
(d) The car breaks down.

13. What does Willy intend to do during the day?
(a) Ask Howard for a job as a branch manager since he has been with the company for so long.
(b) Get a haircut and buy a new suit in readiness for his dinner with the boys.
(c) See Howard and convince him to allow Willy to be taken off road work to stay in New York.
(d) Convince Howard that he needs a pay rise.

14. What suggests to us that Biff has returned from a journey?
(a) Linda mentions that Biff has "just got off [a] train."
(b) A partially unpacked suitcase is on Biff's bed.
(c) Linda tells Willy she met the train.
(d) Biff's suitcase is in the hall.

15. What does Willy find frustrating about the appliances he has bought over the years?
(a) They are too expensive, badly designed and badly made.
(b) They have design faults.
(c) They are not made by American companies.
(d) They wear out or break before he has fully paid for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change has Happy noticed in Biff?

2. What does Willy's plan for cutting off the tree branch show us about him?

3. What does Willy find ironic about people?

4. How did Ben and Willy's father support his family financially as they traveled?

5. What excuse does Charley give Willy for his visit?

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