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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. Where did the deed to the house come from?
(a) It was won in a poker game.
(b) It was an inheritance.
(c) Max bought the house as a young man.
(d) It was a foreclosure.

2. Abandoning his search for the scissors, Max lights a cigarette he has gotten from where?
(a) From the desk
(b) From his pocket
(c) From Lenny's jacket
(d) From the ashtray

3. How is Joey related to Max?
(a) Max is Joey's uncle.
(b) Max and Joey are brothers.
(c) Max is Joey's father.
(d) Max and Joey are cousins.

4. Aside from Teddy's education, why does Lenny say he envies Teddy?
(a) The family favors Teddy.
(b) Teddy is sensitive.
(c) The girls have always liked Teddy.
(d) Teddy is rich.

5. What do Lenny and Ruth argue about?
(a) Lenny's lies
(b) Teddy's faithfulness
(c) The family album
(d) Ruth's glass

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lenny say Max used to always like doing?

2. What occupation does Lenny tell Ruth he's always imagined for himself?

3. Where did Sam get some cigars?

4. What does Sam brag about?

5. What does Max tell Lenny to stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lenny says he envies Teddy for what reasons?

2. Throughout the play, Max verbally abuses his son Joey; give an example of this verbal abuse.

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

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

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

6. When Teddy arrives at his family's home, what does he find unchanged?

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

8. Just after they arrive at the house, what does Teddy reassure Ruth about?

9. What does Lenny ask his father about the night he was conceived?

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

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