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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 type of message does Glenn deliver over the phone?
(a) No message is delivered; they don't want anyone to know they are there.
(b) A long, complicated message.
(c) A coded message.
(d) A terse threat.

2. How old is Ralphie?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

3. To where does the setting of the scene shift?
(a) The local bank that is robbed.
(b) The morgue where the hit and run victim lies.
(c) The site of the jail breakout.
(d) Dan and Eleanor Hilliard's home.

4. Who is Helen Laski?
(a) Samuel's girlfriend.
(b) Glenn's girlfriend.
(c) Eleanor's neighbor.
(d) Eleanor's best friend.

5. What do the criminals tell Eleanor and Cindy to do?
(a) Draw some bath water for the men.
(b) Make up some bed with linens.
(c) Take Ralphie and tie him in his bedroom.
(d) Make some dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dan realize that something is wrong in his house?

2. What name causes Bard to feel terror?

3. Who do the police hope will lead them to the men for whom they are searching?

4. What does Cindy's arrival at home cause?

5. What is Chuck's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the atmosphere at the Indianapolis sheriff's department appear at the beginning of the play and what changes that?

2. What does Griffin make clear to Cindy and Dan?

3. What does Robish do when Chuck begins to come downstairs?

4. How does Dan react when the police pick up Cindy and Flick and what does he believe?

5. What is it about the man at the door that puzzles Eleanor?

6. What does Dan tell Ralphie and what does Ralphie and Griffin do after Eleanor and Chuck have left the house?

7. What do Carson and Bard do when after Robish is outside?

8. What type of classic theme is exhibited by the interpersonal dynamics in this play?

9. What does Dan do after Robish opens the front door?

10. What does Ralphie do when he comes home?

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