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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the character on stage at the beginning of the play repeatedly try to get the audience to do?
(a) Stand up.
(b) Pay attention.
(c) Clap their hands.
(d) Sing along.

2. What do Artie and Bunny argue over when she brings up their friend Billy in California?
(a) Who will pay for the tickets.
(b) If they should stay with Billy or in a hotel.
(c) Who is closer to Billy.
(d) Where Bananas will go.

3. What is insinuated that Artie will attempt to do as the play unfolds?
(a) Turn his fantasies into reality.
(b) Leave his town.
(c) Find his love.
(d) Kill his enemy.

4. Where does Artie tell Billy he met Bunny for the first time?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A movie.
(c) A sauna.
(d) A club.

5. Where does Bunny go when Artie asks her to leave?
(a) The car.
(b) The store.
(c) The bedroom.
(d) The kitchen.

6. What idea does Artie's roughness with Bananas reinforce?
(a) He is in opposition to the war.
(b) He is a man on the edge.
(c) The increase of domestic violence.
(d) The intolerance toward mental illness.

7. What is foreshadowed in the Prologue that will happen to Artie towards the end of the play?
(a) He will lose the love of his life.
(b) He will commit a serious crime.
(c) He will achieve his goals.
(d) He will descend into madness.

8. What will all of the characters do throughout the play that Artie does in the Prologue?
(a) Speak to the audience.
(b) Play an instrument.
(c) Be alone on stage.
(d) Have a spotlight.

9. Why is Bunny angry with Artie at the end of Act I, Part II?
(a) He still loves Bananas.
(b) He wants to stay in Queens.
(c) He wants to help Bananas one last time.
(d) He will not see the Pope.

10. What does the character on stage at the beginning of the play shout offstage for?
(a) A line.
(b) A blue light.
(c) A cane.
(d) A microphone.

11. What does Artie force down Bananas' throat in order to calm her down?
(a) Her inhaler.
(b) Water.
(c) Pills.
(d) Alcohol.

12. What could the Pope be a symbol of for Artie and the rest of the characters as the play progresses?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Comfort.

13. How is the symbolic colorization in the Prologue physically represented on stage?
(a) A jacket.
(b) Paint.
(c) A strobe light.
(d) Props.

14. What does Bananas pretend to be when Artie fixes her breakfast?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Bunny.
(d) An animal at the zoo.

15. Where does Artie tell Bananas that he and Bunny are moving to?
(a) London.
(b) California.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bunny wish to happen when the Pope passes by?

2. When Ronnie emerges from his room after everyone leaves, what is he carrying?

3. To what country does Bunny hand Bananas guide books for?

4. What aspect of the play will Artie's attempt to reach his goals affect?

5. Who could Bananas' dream be a foreshadowing of?

(see the answer keys)

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