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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the outcome of Willy's visit to Howard?
(a) Willy is fired.
(b) Willy loses his temper and resigns.
(c) Willy is given the desk job that he wants.
(d) Howard tells Willy he must work in Boston.

2. What excuse does Charley give Willy for his visit?
(a) He hears some noise so he thinks he would come in for a chat.
(b) He remembers to tell Willy about an important job opportunity.
(c) He hears some noise and thinks something has happened.
(d) He wants to play cards.

3. What does Willy admit to Charley?
(a) That Howard verbally abused him.
(b) That Howard fired him.
(c) That he has been stealing from Howard.
(d) That he kissed Howard's secretary.

4. What jobs has Biff mostly had since leaving school?
(a) Businessman and sales clerk
(b) Shipping clerk and salesman
(c) Salesman and cattle herder
(d) Shipping clerk and horse-breeder

5. To what does Bernard attribute Biff's lack of success after the age of seventeen?
(a) Bernard says people do not trust Biff to commit.
(b) Biff has never trained himself for anything.
(c) Biff has never been well-liked.
(d) Bernard simply has no idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy tell Linda about his feelings for her?

2. What does Charley kid Willy about?

3. How does Willy pay for Biff's radio correspondence course?

4. What is the core of Linda's appeal to her sons?

5. Why does Biff plan to visit Bill Oliver?

Short Essay Questions

1. What erratic behavior of Willy's indicates that he is disintegrating emotionally?

2. How do the Lomans react to Bernard's news that Biff must study for his coming exams?

3. What does the audience learn about Linda from her great confrontation with her sons in Act 1?

4. What is revealed about teenage Biff's popularity with girls?

5. What is the importance of Howard Wagner's new wire recorder?

6. What is revealed about Willy during his hallucinatory return to the past?

7. How does Biff respond to Happy's question about his plans for the future?

8. What does Biff suggest he and Happy do to change their lives?

9. What is Linda's attitude to Willy's return?

10. What is the significance of the way the Loman house is presented when the play begins?

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