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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. How many children does Ruth have?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Three
(d) Two
2. When Sam comes in from the kitchen, what emotion of Sam's does Max say he doesn't understand?
(a) Anger
(b) Jealousy
(c) Resentment
(d) Guilt
3. What is Ruth's response when Teddy asks her to go home?
(a) She tries to reason with him.
(b) She hugs him.
(c) She is non-committal and almost non-responsive.
(d) She shouts at him to leave her alone.
4. To whom does Max compare Sam?
(a) Joey
(b) Himself (Max)
(c) Lenny
(d) MacGregor
5. When Max hits Joey in the stomach because Joey doesn't obey him, who moves to help Joey?
(a) Ruth
(b) Teddy
(c) Sam
(d) Lenny
Short Answer Questions
1. After she has gotten up off the floor, what does Ruth ask Teddy?
2. The first time Max meets Ruth, what doe Teddy tell Max about her?
3. After Lenny mocks Teddy's inability to answer his question, what subject does the conversation change to?
4. Which two characters have been out working when the play begins but come home before Ruth and Teddy arrive?
5. On the morning after Teddy and Ruth's arrival, just before Max invites Joey to go out with him for the afternoon, what does Max complain about?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Teddy and Ruth come downstairs and surprise Max, what is the first thing he wants to know?
2. What does Joey do in his uncle's defense when Max criticizes Sam?
3. What kinds of demands does Ruth make on the brothers?
4. By the end of the first act, which characters has Max not physically or verbally abused?
5. For what does Max criticize Sam when Sam is in the kitchen?
6. What kind of response does Teddy make to his brothers' caressing Ruth?
7. What argument do Max and Joey have at the beginning of the Act 1, Scene 3?
8. Act One, scene 3 begins the morning after Teddy and Ruth have arrived; what characters have not yet met Ruth?
9. What violent action does Max take against Sam?
10. What does Teddy tell Max about his family life with Ruth?
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