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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Chairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the stage directions indicate about the newspaper men who arrive in The Chairs?
(a) They are short.
(b) They are elderly.
(c) They are fat.
(d) They are tall.

2. Jack's sister refers to her father's "big hairy foot full of" what?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Rage.
(c) Spite.
(d) Horns.

3. What does the maid urge the professor to remain in the beginning of The Lesson?
(a) Calm.
(b) Resilient.
(c) Focused.
(d) Centered.

4. Who smacks Grandfather Jack in Jack, or The Submission?
(a) Grandmother Jack.
(b) Father Jack.
(c) Mother Jack.
(d) Jack.

5. The old man in the Chairs claims, "all my enemies have been ____ and all my friends have betrayed me."
(a) Vanquished.
(b) Heralded.
(c) Killed.
(d) Rewarded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the setting for The Lesson?

2. What is another word for phonemes?

3. What does the old woman say you use a leaf of beef, an hour of flour, a little gastric sugar?

4. In The Lesson, the pupil says, "I know my ______, don't I, Professor?"

5. How much time per day does the old man devote to working on his message in The Chairs?

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