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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 caused Maggie and Steve to come to see Joe?
(a) He no longer has the option to go home.
(b) The hospital insisted that they come immediately.
(c) He begged them to come and visit.
(d) They insisted that they had to come one last time.

2. What does Maggie talk to Joe about at first?
(a) Steve's new job.
(b) Her work.
(c) How much she missed him.
(d) Her plane trip.

3. Who does Felicity say Agnes is like?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

4. Why is Joe's interview halted?
(a) Joe has become ill.
(b) His family has arrived.
(c) Joe has asked for a break.
(d) Another patient needs the interviewer.

5. What does Brian admit scares him to death?
(a) The act of dying.
(b) Never seeing her again.
(c) Losing Mark.
(d) What happens in the after life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition of what it means to be socially taboo?

2. Which of the following best describes how Joe feels about talking to a voice when he is unable to see the person?

3. What does Brian say about day-to-day basis life can be?

4. How many terminally ill people are in this play?

5. Where is the setting for the opening of this play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why weren't Joe's wife and son regular visitors while he was in the hospital?

2. What happens between Mark and Beverly after he spills champagne on his jacket?

3. How does Felicity undermine her daughter Agnes?

4. How does Brian end his time with the interviewer?

5. Why did Brian's wife leave him?

6. How does Felicity feel about her treatment so far at the hospital and where does she sometimes think she is?

7. What was Mark doing before Brian took him in?

8. What was Joe's reaction to learning that his condition had become terminal?

9. How does Mark feel about Beverly's behavior and how does Brian feel about it?

10. What was Agnes's rationale for taking on the duty of writing the letters to her mother?

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