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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is moving into America at the beginning of the play?
(a) A desert.
(b) A tidal wave.
(c) A wall of ice.
(d) A lot of sand.

2. What does Sabina ask the audience to pass up for the fire?
(a) Their chairs.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their purses.

3. Mr. Antrobus was elected president of the international society of mammals. What division?
(a) Human division.
(b) Inventor division.
(c) Learner division.
(d) Keeper division.

4. What reason does Gladys give for wearing makeup?
(a) Because she wants to.
(b) Because it makes her look pretty.
(c) Because the boys like it.
(d) Because other girls do it.

5. Sabina won a beauty contest judged by whom?
(a) The society.
(b) Homer.
(c) Judge Moses.
(d) Mr. Antrobus.

6. What kinds of fortunes does the Fortune Teller shout, apparently at random?
(a) Happy fortunes.
(b) Prosperous fortunes.
(c) Sad fortunes.
(d) Gloomy fortunes.

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

8. What month is it at the beginning of the play?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) August.
(d) September.

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

10. Who asked the refugees to come to the Antrobus' house?
(a) Mrs. Antrobus.
(b) Sabina.
(c) Henry.
(d) Mr. Antrobus.

11. Homer shares his name with a poet from what time period?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) Ancient America.
(c) Ancient Greece.
(d) Ancient China.

12. While Mr. Antrobus drills Henry in the times tables, what does he order Mrs. Antrobus to teach Gladys?
(a) The first verses of the Illiad.
(b) The first verses of "Amazing Grace."
(c) The first verses of the Bible.
(d) The first verses of some poetry.

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

14. Who does Mrs. Antrobus send to fetch Mr. Antrobus' slippers after he orders the fires put out?
(a) Tannya.
(b) Summer.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Fuscia.

15. Who beings passing up things to the stage as Act I ends?
(a) Theater stagehands.
(b) Theater ushers.
(c) Theater security.
(d) Theater designers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sabina says that a few years ago, everyone got through what event, "by the skin of our teeth"?

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

4. What does the slide show say Mrs. Antrobus invented?

5. From what building does the sound of bingo numbers being called emerge?

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