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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 in response to Bananas' reasoning for not seeing the Pope?
(a) Gives her more pills.
(b) Puts her to bed.
(c) Slaps her.
(d) Yells at her.

2. What does Bunny wish to happen when the Pope passes by?
(a) A new life with Artie.
(b) Bananas' death.
(c) For Artie to be famous.
(d) For Bananas to get better.

3. Who does Artie address while he is talking about the Pope?
(a) Ronnie.
(b) Bunny.
(c) The audience.
(d) Bananas.

4. When does the play begin?
(a) As the audience is finding their seats.
(b) Halfway through the first scene.
(c) After the audience sits down.
(d) When the audience is quiet.

5. Why does Bunny claim that Billy could help Artie find work as a composer?
(a) Billy is an accomplished director.
(b) Billy is a talent agent.
(c) Billy knows a lot of recording artists.
(d) Billy is a record label executive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bananas pretend to be when Artie fixes her breakfast?

3. Who looks out of the bedroom at Artie and Bunny while they are talking?

4. What does Bananas throw at Artie and Bunny after Artie gets off the phone with Billy?

5. What does the character on stage at the beginning of the play repeatedly try to get the audience to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what Artie is doing in the play's Prologue.

3. What does Corrinna say to the audience when she arrives in Act II, Scene I, Part II?

4. What does Bananas' story about being on the snowy rooftop foreshadow?

5. What does Bunny reveal that she wishes to happen when she first introduces herself to the audience?

6. Bananas asks Billy to stay with her in the apartment, but what does Billy suggest instead?

7. What is the story the Three Nuns tell Artie when he lets them into his apartment?

8. What is Bunny doing when we first see her in Act I, Part I?

9. What does the color blue mean for the characters in the play?

10. What does the audience learn about in Act II, Scene I, Part I that links all of the characters together in the play?

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