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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linda think will happen in Biff's meeting with Bill Oliver?
(a) Biff will return the goods he stole a few years ago.
(b) Biff will ask for ten or fifteen thousand dollars.
(c) Biff will ask for thirty thousand dollars.
(d) Biff will ask Bill Oliver for a steady job.

2. Why does Biff plan to visit Bill Oliver?
(a) To give him a job
(b) To ask him for money
(c) To pay back some money lent in the past
(d) To ask him for a job

3. What sort of cheese does Willy prefer?
(a) American
(b) Swiss
(c) Edam
(d) Brie

4. What reason does Willy give for refusing Charley's offer?
(a) He says the offer is not generous enough.
(b) He says he is too old to learn anything new.
(c) He stresses that he already has a job.
(d) He is insulted.

5. What is wrong with Biff whistling in the elevator?
(a) It indicates he is irresponsible and childish.
(b) It is tuneless.
(c) It annoys other people in the lift.
(d) It indicates he is over confident.

6. What does Biff say would make him happy?
(a) His brother working with him out in the country
(b) To have his own apartment and a steady girlfriend
(c) His brother marrying and settling down
(d) His father retiring

7. Who is Bill Oliver?
(a) Biff's previous employer
(b) Happy's merchandise manager
(c) Willy's best friend
(d) Biff's previous employee

8. What make of car does Willy currently drive?
(a) Citroen
(b) Morris Minor
(c) Chevrolet
(d) Studebaker

9. How did Ben make his fortune?
(a) In the fur trade
(b) In oil
(c) In diamond mines
(d) In Alaskan exploration

10. What change has Happy noticed in Biff?
(a) Biff has lost his old humor and confidence.
(b) Biff has put on weight and seems confused.
(c) Biff has lost his sense of humor and has become bad-tempered.
(d) Biff has become withdrawn and sad.

11. Who does Happy say is his ideal girl?
(a) Anyone he can look up to and who will help him get along
(b) Someone with financial experience
(c) Someone who is a good cook and a good typist
(d) Someone like his mother

12. All the old buyers who loved Willy are ___________.
(a) in Boston
(b) in New York
(c) dead or retired
(d) retired to Florida

13. What is the core of Linda's appeal to her sons?
(a) That their father is in despair and needs their attention.
(b) That their father needs money to alleviate his despair.
(c) That they must get medical attention for their father's depression.
(d) Not to let Willy know that she has skipped several mortgage payments.

14. When Linda says "You notice?", what is she referring to?
(a) The new night dress she is wearing
(b) The smell of shaving lotion pervading the house
(c) That she has dyed her hair
(d) The aroma of the Irish stew she made for dinner

15. What, in Willy's behavior, embarrasses Happy?
(a) Willy does not know the way to Florida.
(b) Willy has been singing in the lift.
(c) Willy has been mocking Biff.
(d) Willy has been talking to himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surrounds the Salesman's house?

2. What sound is heard before the curtain rises?

3. Where does Willy get the money he says is his pay?

4. Where was Ben living when he died?

5. At what time does Happy give Linda some money?

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