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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. What does Timmy do when Nettie grabs his hand?
(a) Pulls it away.
(b) Begins crying.
(c) Grabs her hand as well.
(d) Begins laughing.

2. What does Timmy think of his father's intelligence?
(a) He is uninformed.
(b) He is slightly above average.
(c) He is slightly below average.
(d) He is wise.

3. How does Nettie respond when John embraces her in the third scene of Act 1?
(a) She is disgusted.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She is confused.
(d) She does not even notice.

4. What type of apartment do the Clearys live in?
(a) Somewhere between lower and middle class.
(b) Somewhere between middle and upper class.
(c) Middle class.
(d) Upper class.

5. How does Nettie respond to Timmy at the end of Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) She sends him to the store to buy more aspirin.
(b) She sends him to bed.
(c) She ignores him.
(d) She sends him to the store to buy more roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nettie lecture John about in the first scene of Act 1?

2. How does John comment on Nettie's dress in Act 1, Scene 3?

3. What is interesting about the howls at the end of the second scene of Act 1?

4. Where does Timmy go in the beginning of the third scene?

5. What do Timmy and John do after Nettie responds to the roses?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Nettie and Timmy revisit their past at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?

2. How does Timmy tell John about the purse full of coins, and what is his father's response?

3. What does Nettie describe to Timmy about the job she almost took before she met John, and why is it significant?

4. Why does John think that he and Nettie's marriage will improve, and how does Nettie comment on his theory?

5. What symbolic act does Nettie make with the roses at the end of Act 1, Scene 3?

6. What is it that John is doubting about himself and how does Timmy attempt to reassure him in Scene 2?

7. What does Timmy offer at the end of Act 1, Scene 3, and what does John reveal to Nettie?

8. What does Timmy ask his father in the first scene, and why does John have to decline?

9. What is the state of the Clearys' apartment in the beginning of the play and why?

10. How do Timmy and John respond to Nettie's response to the flowers?

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