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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Ronnie emerges from his room after everyone leaves, what is he carrying?
(a) A large box.
(b) Bananas' medication.
(c) His rifle.
(d) His childhood pictures.

3. What does the character on stage at the beginning of the play gather up before exiting the stage?
(a) Music and bows.
(b) Posters and markers.
(c) Microphones.
(d) Chairs.

4. What is Bananas doing in the dream she explains to Artie that she frequently has?
(a) She flees the house.
(b) She walks hand in hand with Artie.
(c) She kills Bunny.
(d) She cries all day.

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

6. What does Bananas say they can take down if Artie is not going to kill himself after all?
(a) Locks on the cabinets.
(b) Posters of great songwriters.
(c) The knives from the high shelves.
(d) The bars on the windows.

7. When is the title of the play mentioned during Act I, Part II?
(a) When Artie describes the house Bananas can live at.
(b) When Artie sees that Bananas has a chance of getting better.
(c) When Bananas says the bars can be taken from the windows.
(d) When Bunny suggests that they stay with Billy in California.

8. What does Artie suggest Bananas do in order to make her prayers come true?
(a) Kiss the Pope's hem on TV.
(b) Reconnect with relatives.
(c) Move out on her own.
(d) Write a letter to the Pope.

9. What is the second song Artie improvises in Act I, Part II about?
(a) California.
(b) The Pope blessing him.
(c) Being rich.
(d) Being famous.

10. Why does Bananas tell Artie not to be disrespectful at the beginning of Act I, Part II?
(a) He says he loves Bunny.
(b) He makes fun of her.
(c) He improvises a song about the Pope.
(d) He scorns the Vietnam War.

11. What is Artie eager for that he expresses to the audience in the beginning of The House of Blue Leaves?
(a) Applause.
(b) Money.
(c) Anonymity.
(d) Success.

12. Who could Bananas' dream be a foreshadowing of?
(a) Religion.
(b) Bunny.
(c) Ronnie.
(d) Artie.

13. What does Artie do so that Bananas can see the Pope?
(a) Turns on the television.
(b) Forces her into the car.
(c) Gives her a stuffed animal and calls it the Pope.
(d) Opens the windows.

14. What does Artie tell Bananas that he and Bunny are going to do?
(a) Go on a date.
(b) Go to the museum.
(c) See the Pope.
(d) Run away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the audience become after the Prologue of The House of Blue Leaves?

2. What could the Pope be a symbol of for Artie and the rest of the characters as the play progresses?

3. What does Bananas ask Artie about her dream at the end of Act I, Part I?

4. What do Artie and Bunny argue over when she brings up their friend Billy in California?

5. What does Artie do in response to Bananas' reasoning for not seeing the Pope?

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