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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linda order her sons to do?
(a) To give their father some money.
(b) To pack their things and leave immediately.
(c) To help Willy plant his seeds.
(d) To apologize to their father.

2. What is Linda's response to the flowers?
(a) She knocks them to the floor.
(b) She weeps, then throws them right back at the giver.
(c) She smiles grimly, then puts the flowers in a vase.
(d) She weeps a little and puts them to her face.

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

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

5. What distance does Willy measure between the rows?
(a) One inch
(b) One meter
(c) One chain
(d) One foot

6. What was the problem with Willy's dreams?
(a) They did not go far enough.
(b) They were nghtmarish.
(c) They went too far.
(d) They were wrong.

7. What are the types of seeds Willy is planting?
(a) Lettuce, beans and tomatoes
(b) Radishes, carrots and beets
(c) Tomatoes, radishes and carrots
(d) Carrots, beets and lettuce

8. What does Happy fail to see in Biff's offer?
(a) He cannot see that it is an opportunity.
(b) He cannot see how it will make him any quick money.
(c) He cannot see how it will find him planty of girlfriends.
(d) He cannot see that he will have to work hard.

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

10. What does Biff notice when he is in Bill Oliver's office?
(a) That there is a wire recorder on the desk.
(b) That there is a mahogany desk with a fountain pen lying on the blotter.
(c) That there are fine pictures, a dado rail and Huon pine paneling.
(d) That it has paneled walls.

11. Biff speaking to whom when he says "'I know who I am, kid."
(a) Charley
(b) Linda
(c) Bernard
(d) Happy

12. To whom is Willy referring when he says, "He thinks I'm nothing?"
(a) Charley
(b) Howard
(c) Happy
(d) Biff

13. What is Charley's assessment of the funeral?
(a) It was moving.
(b) It was too cheap.
(c) It was very nice.
(d) It should not have happened yet.

14. According to Linda, what extra expense had Willy also paid?
(a) The insurance company
(b) The dentist
(c) The doctor
(d) The mechanic

15. How many home improvements does Linda mention Willy has undertaken?
(a) Two
(b) Ten
(c) Six
(d) Five

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Biff gives Willy for Birnbaum's dislike of him?

2. Who brings flowers for Linda?

3. What privilege does the Woman promise Willy?

4. What does Charley say a salesman is not?

5. How was Biff formerly employed at Bill Oliver's company?

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