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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mother Lovejoy and Sister preparing to do while Mollie is in seclusion?
(a) Preparing for the funeral
(b) Preparing the will and testament paperwork
(c) Preparing the home for funeral guests
(d) Preparing to return home

2. What subject does John have a penchant for?
(a) English
(b) Math
(c) History
(d) Science

3. What is John's profession of an architect a metaphor of?
(a) Rebuilding Mollie and Paris's lives
(b) Stiking out on his own
(c) Building a new way of thinking
(d) Housing a family

4. What is the best phrase to describe Philip's perception of his world during this dark time?
(a) Everything can turn around
(b) Everthing is hopeless
(c) No one cares for him
(d) Everything is a struggle

5. What has Mother Lovejoy chosen to use as a form of transportation as opposed to a taxi to get to the train station?
(a) A limousine
(b) A heliocopter
(c) A small bus
(d) A plane

6. Which character is the most capable of showing personal affection as seen especially in Act 3?
(a) Mollie
(b) John
(c) Paris
(d) Mother Lovejoy

7. What does Paris go to do after his father discusses love and nature with him?
(a) To rouse Mollie
(b) To get ready to go fishing
(c) To wake Sister
(d) To find Mother Lovejoy

8. Why is Mollie in seclusion in her room?
(a) She does not believe the truth
(b) She is waiting for John
(c) She is depressed
(d) She is paralyzed with grief

9. What will the family remember most about Philip?
(a) His anger and his volatility
(b) His care and his confusion
(c) His love and compassion
(d) His genuis and his angst

10. What is Paris's explanation of his father's death?
(a) His father was in ill physical health
(b) His father was murdered
(c) His father was in a car accident
(d) His father was a victim of assault

11. What does Paris think that all the talk of the new house sounds like?
(a) The square root of wonderful
(b) The square root of terrific
(c) The square root of grief
(d) The square root of sin

12. What does John believe is the basis for his calculations of all human conditions?
(a) Safety or danger
(b) Sin or love
(c) Love or danger
(d) Genius or paralysis

13. What is the story that John tells when relating to Paris's story regarding his father?
(a) A sailor who killed himself
(b) A sailor who kept pulling down John with him
(c) A sailor who was sad
(d) A sailor that drowned himself

14. Who does Mother Lovejoy say will inherit her estate when she dies?
(a) Paris
(b) Mollie and Paris
(c) Sister
(d) Mollie

15. Who informs Philip that Mollie is prepared to leave?
(a) Mother Lovejoy
(b) John
(c) Paris
(d) Sister

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mollie as Philip is talking to Paris about leaving together?

2. What is the core reason or feeling why Paris does not go with his father?

3. Who does Mollie blame for Philip's death?

4. What essentially trigger's Paris to decline his father's offer to leave together?

5. Who does John think Mollie must choose to save from a similar fate as Philip?

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