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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moss expect the police to do after the leads are stolen?

2. Which of the following is a development that Jerry Graff sells?

3. Where does Levene suggest that Williamson learned his management style?

4. Who invalidated the last lead Levene closed?

5. What is Moss planning to do with his evening?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Roma frantic when he enters the office in Act 2?

2. According to Moss, what must a man do to go out on his own?

3. What is Roma's ideas concerning morality?

4. How does Williamson figure out that Levene robbed the office?

5. How does Williamson describe his primary duties as office manager?

6. How does Moss initially broach the idea of robbing the office?

7. How does Williamson respond to Levene's offer of money?

8. How does Moss explain the division of profits from the sale of the leads?

9. What reassurance does Roma give Aaronow about talking to the police?

10. How does the nature Roma and Lingk's conversation shift at the end of the scene?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Act 1, Scene 3, Ricky Roma speaks at length about the world, fear, morality, and eventually real estate. Analyze this monologue, dividing your examination into three parts:

Part 1) In the beginning of the scene, Roma is engaging James Lingk in a frank discussion about moral codes. About what does he assure Lingk? What does he believe about middle-class morality?

Part 2) The body of Roma's, monologue concerns the things that drive human beings to fear full paralysis. What are these things? How does Roma free himself of them? How does he recommend Lingk do the same?

Part 3) What is the ultimate objective of Roma's soliloquy? How does he make this objective clear at the very end of the scene? How has the rest of the monologue been at service of this objective?

Essay Topic 2

Scene 3 of Glengarry Glen Ross provides on of the strangest interchanges of the play. Roma's long diatribe to Lingk is equal parts preaching, commiserating, flirting, and salesmanship. Write an essay about the multi-layered ambiguity of the scene. What does each man want from the interchange? How does Roma intermingle Lingk's desire with his own objective? What does this scene say about the nature of sales?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the character of James Lingk. He does not speak much, but when he does his words express a deep-seeded fear of life and desire to be loved. Why does he buy into Roma's pitch so readily, and why does he remain as loyal to the man as to his own wife? Does the author imply a deeper emotional bond from Lingk's point of view? What does Lingk ultimately represent in the frame of the play?

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