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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Antrobus quote while Henry quotes the multiplication tables?
(a) Biblical story of flood.
(b) Biblical story or repentance.
(c) Biblical story of creation.
(d) Biblical story of destruction.

2. When Gladys returns with Mr. Antrobus' slippers, she begs him to do what?
(a) Look at her just once.
(b) Sing to her just once.
(c) Praise her just once.
(d) Teach her something just once.

3. Why does Sabina ask the audience to pass things up for the fire?
(a) To save the Antrobus'.
(b) To save herself.
(c) To save the children.
(d) To save the human race.

4. What word does the Fortune Teller use to describe the flooding rain that is in humanity's future?
(a) A downpour.
(b) A deluge.
(c) A laughable.
(d) A sizeable.

5. When Mr. Antrobus introduces the old women refugees, who does he say they are?
(a) Scholars.
(b) Muses.
(c) Winners.
(d) Spirits.

6. Mrs. Antrobus asks Sabina if she milked what?
(a) The elephant.
(b) The cow.
(c) The dinosaur.
(d) The mammoth.

7. What is one of Mr. Antrobus' most notable achievements?
(a) Classifying the birds.
(b) Classifying the fish.
(c) Classifying the animals.
(d) Classifying the insects.

8. As Sabina talks, what happens to parts of the set?
(a) It is changed to new sets.
(b) It disappears.
(c) It is darkened.
(d) It moves upwards.

9. Sabina says that a few years ago, everyone got through what event, "by the skin of our teeth"?
(a) The War.
(b) The Depression.
(c) The Ice Age.
(d) The Earthquake.

10. What role does Sabina play in the Antrobus household?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Maid.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Cook.

11. Why does Mr. Antrobus smack Henry when he shows him the new invention?
(a) Because Mr. Antrobus is mad at Henry.
(b) So Henry will have something to really remember the day.
(c) Because Mr. Antrobus always hits Henry.
(d) So Henry knows he loves him.

12. Where do the Antrobus' live?
(a) New York.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) New Connecticut.
(d) New Jersey.

13. Where does Mrs. Antrobus send the children so that she can talk to Mr. Antrobus alone?
(a) The playroom.
(b) The study.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) Their rooms.

14. A society proclaiming the end of the world postponed it because they saw what?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The theater.
(c) The sunrise.
(d) The light.

15. Mrs. Antrobus urges her fellow human beings to live by what slogan?
(a) Save the Family.
(b) Save Humanity.
(c) Save the House.
(d) Save the Environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who beings passing up things to the stage as Act I ends?

2. What does Mrs. Antrobus do when she sees the man who spread the story about Mr. Antrobus wanting to be a fish?

3. According to the stage directions, how old is the Telegraph Boy?

4. What was found, according to the announcement, with the inscription "From Eva to Adam"?

5. Before the Telegraph Boy can come into the house, Sabina and Mrs. Antrobus do what?

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