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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. Not being able to rely on her reasoning, the pupil has done what with all possible multiplications?
(a) Memorized.
(b) Forgotten them.
(c) Learned a new system.
(d) Recalculated.

2. Where is the setting for The Lesson?
(a) The maid's room.
(b) The professor's office.
(c) The pupil's office.
(d) The nursery.

3. Who died three years ago, according to Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Sarah Jane Winslow.
(b) Mrs. Wilson.
(c) Bobby Watson.
(d) The Danbury boy.

4. How many strokes does the "English clock" strike at the beginning of The Bald Soprano?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 17.

5. What does the professor use to demonstrate numbers in The Lesson?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Matches.
(c) Children.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in the course of The Lesson, loses gaiety to become withdrawn and morose?

2. What is Mr. Martin's name in The Bald Soprano?

3. In The Bald Soprano, the woman who asphyxiated herself by gas thought it was what?

4. Of whom does the fire chief say, "It is she who extinguished my first fires"?

5. What does the maid enter to look for in the beginning of The Lesson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the transitions of the professor and the pupil in The Lesson.

2. What is Absurdism and how does it inhabit the four plays of the book?

3. How does the ending of The Lesson relate to the other plays' endings in the collection?

4. What does the fire chief say upon leaving? How does this tie into the title of The Bald Soprano?

5. What object does the professor take from the shelf? What does he do with it?

6. Describe the distinguishing qualities of the set and the Smiths in The Bald Soprano.

7. What is the beginning conversation between the Smiths and the Martins like?

8. What initial conversation takes place between the professor and the pupil in The Lesson?

9. What happens in the beginning of The Lesson? What is the setting?

10. Describe the doorbell in The Bald Soprano.

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