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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. Who is "a good manager, thrifty, plays the piano," in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Helen.
(c) Mary.
(d) Mrs. Martin.

2. What does the professor go and take out of the drawer in the end of The Lesson?
(a) A knive.
(b) Some chalk.
(c) A rope.
(d) A pencil.

3. What does the fire chief have orders to do in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Call on the Smiths for a domestic dispute.
(b) Extinguish all the fires in the city.
(c) Save innocent children.
(d) Check to make sure everyone has fire alarms.

4. What time does Mrs. Smith say it is when she first speaks to her husband in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Seven o'clock.
(b) Twelve o'clock.
(c) Nine o'clock.
(d) Eleven o'clock.

5. The Smiths were given seven silver what for their wedding in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Spoons.
(b) Salvers.
(c) Knives.
(d) Forks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the following languages, according to the professor? Spanish, Latin, Italian, French, Portuguese, etc.

2. What, according to the professor, are so closely related as to be true second cousins?

3. What does the pupil say her parents want her to do, in addition to getting an education?

4. What does the professor write on to illustrate numbers to the pupil?

5. Whose mother courted Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Smiths and Martins respond to the fire chief? What does he do afterward?

2. How does the professor attempt to teach the pupil arithmetic?

3. Why are the initial stage directions atypical in The Lesson?

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

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

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

7. What does Mary say in her aside to the audience in The Bald Soprano?

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

9. What do the maid and the professor do at the end of The Lesson?

10. What does the professor do after the death of the pupil?

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