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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Willy feel broken and desperate?
(a) The possibility that Linda might re-marry.
(b) The realization that Happy is only interested in getting the insurance money.
(c) The thought that Biff might consider him a coward.
(d) That Linda would hate and despise him.

2. What University had Biff aspired to attend?
(a) The University of Virginia
(b) Yale
(c) Columbia
(d) Oral Roberts University

3. What does Linda ask Willy to forgive?
(a) Her inability to cope
(b) That she was not also in the car when it crashed
(c) That she kept darning her silk stockings
(d) Her inability to cry

4. How does Willy explain the Woman's presence to Biff?
(a) He says she is a buyer for Westinghouse and has lost her car keys.
(b) He says she is a buyer for J. H. Simmons who is running away from a violent husband.
(c) He says she is a buyer for J. H. Simmons and her room is being painted.
(d) He says she is a visiting executive who has been accidentally locked out of her room.

5. What does Biff think Linda needs?
(a) Some flowers
(b) Some money
(c) Some rest
(d) Some new silk stockings

6. What is Willy doing in the garden?
(a) Eating American cheese
(b) Planting seeds
(c) Sitting on the stoop, drinking
(d) Watering the garden

7. How does Charley suggest to Linda that she might leave the graveside?
(a) He suggests that she looks tired and ill.
(b) He tells her it looks like rain.
(c) He points out that it is getting cold.
(d) He points out that it is getting dark.

8. What is the reason Biff gives Willy for Birnbaum's dislike of him?
(a) Binbaum caught Biff mimicking him in front of the other students.
(b) Birnbaum is jealous of Biff's looks.
(c) Birnbaum caught Biff kissing his daughter behind the bicycle sheds.
(d) Birnbaum was jealous because Biff was actually better at calculus than was his teacher.

9. What does Charley say a salesman is not?
(a) Deserving of a large funeral
(b) A mechanic, a lawyer or a doctor
(c) An artist or intellectual
(d) Honest

10. What other device is Willy using?
(a) A hurricane lantern
(b) A watering-can
(c) A lawn edger
(d) A flashlight

11. What does Biff say about himself?
(a) That he is the scum of the earth.
(b) That he is a man of the earth.
(c) That he is a great footballer.
(d) That he is a liar.

12. How has Biff passed Math in the past?
(a) By having his work re-marked
(b) Through cheating, Bernard giving him the answers.
(c) Through practicing with Bernard
(d) Through studying hard

13. What does Biff again offer to Happy?
(a) A free dinner at Frank's Chop House
(b) A future with him in the country
(c) To split the insurance money
(d) A partnership in a sporting goods retail enterprize

14. With what object does Biff confront Willy?
(a) The rubber tube from the vicinity of the heater
(b) Bill Oliver's fountain pen
(c) A gardening boot
(d) The stockings left by the Woman in Boston

15. How does Biff respond to Linda's accusations?
(a) He says he cannot be blamed and cries.
(b) He admits them, ashamed.
(c) He rejects them, blustering.
(d) He tells more lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel where Willy is staying in Boston?

2. What implement is Willy using?

3. To what "cowardly thing" does Ben refer?

4. What does Charley say causes an earthquake?

5. What does Linda order her sons to do?

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