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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Lewis and Warnie doing as scene 7 opens?
(a) Preparing to leave the house.
(b) Eating breakfast.
(c) Reading books.
(d) Talking at a party.

2. How does Warnie feel about this news?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Hateful.

3. Where is Joy's husband?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Dead.
(d) Moscow.

4. What does Lewis do to help ease the tension between him and Joy?
(a) Helps Joy unpack.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Picks Joy a flower.
(d) Asks about Douglas.

5. Who does Lewis reassure in this chapter that Lewis and Joy are just friends?
(a) Warnie.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Bill.
(d) Joy.

6. Including this visit, how many other times have Joy and Douglas been to the Lewis home?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 5
(d) 10

7. What is the name of Joy's son?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Charles.
(c) Alexander.
(d) Peter.

8. What news does the letter contain?
(a) Joy's husband has had an affair and wants a divorce.
(b) Joy's book of poetry is going to be published.
(c) Joy's husband has died.
(d) Joy's mother has died.

9. What does Warnie offer to Joy?
(a) Money to go back to New York.
(b) To watch Douglas for her.
(c) To take her for a drink.
(d) To marry her.

10. Where are Lewis and Warnie when the scene opens?
(a) The study.
(b) Joy's hotel.
(c) In the garden.
(d) A grocery store.

11. What does Warnie do as he and Lewis talk?
(a) Gets dressed.
(b) Cleans the window.
(c) Reads the newspaper.
(d) Drinks coffee.

12. Lewis' brother has had too much of what?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Mutton.
(c) Negativity.
(d) Coffee.

13. Who is Joy coming to England with?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

14. Who does Lewis live with?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Alan.
(c) Warnie.
(d) Harry.

15. What assertion does Lewis make about God?
(a) God does not want us to be happy.
(b) God hates those who sin.
(c) There is no free will.
(d) God should have destroyed the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis ask Douglas about in the scene?

2. In what city does the play take place?

3. How does Douglas respond to questions about his father?

4. What does Warnie suggest about women?

5. In what country is the play set?

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