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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. Who is George O'Brien?
(a) A professor.
(b) A doctor.
(c) Jim's attendant.
(d) Another patient.

2. How does Jim feel that he has acted since entering the hospital, as he describes in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) He has not cooperated with anyone.
(b) He has cooperated with everyone except Ann.
(c) He has cooperated with some, not with others.
(d) He has cooperated with everyone.

3. What is Dr. Bellman unable to give Jim as Act 2, Scene 2 ends?
(a) A reason for his release.
(b) The information they have collected while monitoring him.
(c) The people behind his prolonged stay.
(d) Hope of being released.

4. What is Jim's main profession?
(a) He is a Broadway actor.
(b) He is a Broadway script writer.
(c) He is a Broadway theatre director.
(d) He is a Broadway set decorator.

5. What does the nurse suggest to Ann in the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) That she goes home to rest.
(b) That she starts remembering what happened to Jim.
(c) That she goes home to get the money for the visit.
(d) That she starts thinking of which relatives to call.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Dr. Kramer?

2. How does Jim first appear in the third scene of Act 1?

3. According to Jim, how would all of the people he knows react to his death?

4. What is the fear that the other patients have of "seven"?

5. When does Ann tell Jim his interview for the theater job is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the patients in the convalescent ward described, and what is the contrast between them and Jim in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. What is significant about the time of year that the play takes place and what possible reason could the author have had for choosing it?

3. How does Jim exit Act 3, Scene 3, and what does Ann tell Dr. Bellman?

4. What is the test that Dr. Bellman gives to Jim and how does it prove Jim's sanity?

5. What are the circumstances around Jim's suicide attempt, as revealed in the first scene?

6. How does the nature of the theater and performing arts business during the 1950s lead Jim to believe that he will not be able to regain his former success?

7. What is interesting about the things that Jim tells Dr. Bellman about Ann, and what he will not tell him about Charlotte?

8. How does the conversation between Ann and Dr. Schlesinger have a negative effect on Jim's chances to leave the hospital, and what are Ann's possible motives for her opinion?

9. What do Grosberg and Mr. Fleming reveal to Jim that surprises him, and how does it reflect a larger issue in the hospital?

10. How is Jim released and what does he tell Ann on the phone?

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