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

2. What is Bananas worried that the new house Artie has found for her to live in has?
(a) Asbestos.
(b) Rats.
(c) Shock treatments.
(d) Ghosts.

3. What does Artie say happened to him after he rescued Bananas from a rooftop in the middle of winter?
(a) He caught pneumonia.
(b) His fingers became arthritic.
(c) He broke his leg.
(d) He lost his voice.

4. Artie agrees to see the Pope with Bunny on one condition. What is that condition?
(a) She sing for him.
(b) She gives him some money.
(c) She spend the night with him.
(d) She cook for him.

5. What does Bunny claim that Artie was afraid of until he met her?
(a) Success.
(b) Monotony.
(c) Life.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is foreshadowed in the Prologue that will happen to Artie towards the end of the play?

2. Where does Artie tell Bananas that he and Bunny are moving to?

3. How is the symbolic colorization in the Prologue physically represented on stage?

4. What is the second song Artie improvises in Act I, Part II about?

5. What is Bunny carrying when Artie lets her into his apartment at the beginning of Act I?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Artie steps into the spotlight at the end of the play, what does he sing about?

2. What is the second box that Ronnie returns from the bedroom with?

3. What is noted in the Prologue that will happen with Artie's dreams?

4. Why is the Pope addressing the United Nations?

5. What does Artie do in the Prologue that all of the other characters will also do?

6. What does Ronnie explain to the audience that he did when Billy came over to the apartment?

7. What does Artie shout offstage for?

8. How is the truth about what the color blue means revealed in Act I, Part II?

9. What makes Act II, Scene I, Part II farcical?

10. Why does Corrinna ask the nuns to pray for her?

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