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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 does Lenny want Max to tell him?
(a) If his parents were trying to have a baby or if his conception was an accident
(b) If he was going to inherit the house someday
(c) Why he gets blamed for everything that happens
(d) Why no one would ever loan him any money

2. Which character has been on stage all through the first scene of the play?
(a) Lenny
(b) Max
(c) Joey
(d) Sam

3. Who, instead of Max, does Lenny say he should have asked for an answer to a question that's been bothering him?
(a) Joey
(b) His father
(c) Teddy
(d) His dead mother

4. When Lenny gets flustered, what does Ruth do?
(a) Ruth sits on Lenny's lap.
(b) Ruth apologizes.
(c) Ruth pats Lenny on the head.
(d) Ruth laughs.

5. What does Lenny say when Ruth asks how he knew the prostitute was diseased?
(a) Lenny says a buddy told him the prostitute was diseased.
(b) Lenny says the prostitute told him she was diseased.
(c) Lenny says he just decided she was diseased.
(d) Lenny says the prostitute's mother told him she was diseased.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Joey related to Max?

2. What complaint does Max have about his sons?

3. How long ago did Teddy move out of the family home?

4. What does Ruth want to do by herself shortly after she and Teddy arrive at the family home?

5. What does Teddy suggest to Ruth after they have been home awhile?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Max mean when he uses the phrase "one flow of stinking pus after another?"

2. Max threatens violence toward his son Lenny at different points in the play; give one example.

3. Why does Lenny say he is angry at Ruth for calling him by his full name, Leonard?

4. During the argument over the glass of water, what does Ruth dare Lenny to do?

5. What conflicting information does Max give about MacGregor (his father)?

6. What evidence do we have that Max dominates his brother Sam, as well as his own sons?

7. What does Max say about his understanding of female horses?

8. The first time Lenny is alone with Ruth, what kinds of personal information does he share with her?

9. How does Max respond to Lenny's question about his conception?

10. When Max comes downstairs complaining of noise, what kind of an explanation does Lenny give?

(see the answer keys)

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