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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Helen and Jo hear singing outside?
(a) Geof.
(b) The church choir.
(c) Carolers.
(d) Children.

2. What does Jo promise to buy Geof for Christmas?
(a) She promises to buy him a car.
(b) She promises to buy him a bed.
(c) She promises to buy him dinner.
(d) She promises to buy him a dog.

3. Who does Helen encourage Jo to locate?
(a) The landlady.
(b) The baby's father.
(c) Geof.
(d) Peter.

4. Where did Helen used to go as a child?
(a) Stonehenge.
(b) Strawberry Hill.
(c) Blarney.
(d) Shining Clough.

5. Who does Helen ask for advice right before she leaves?
(a) Geof.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) The audience.
(d) Jo.

6. To what does Helen compare Jo's physical condition?
(a) A ghost warmed up.
(b) A pale horse.
(c) A starving princess.
(d) A sickly child.

7. How does Jo pay for her apartment?
(a) She has married a man with money.
(b) She works all day in a shoe shop and all night in a bar.
(c) She works for a lawyer as an apprentice.
(d) She gets the money from Helen.

8. During their fight, what does Helen say she wishes she had done?
(a) She wishes she had gotten rid of Jo before she was born.
(b) She wishes Jo had had a proper upbringing so they would not be in this mess.
(c) She wishes she had married Jo's father.
(d) She wishes she had joined a convent and become a nun.

9. What major piece of information about the baby does Jo finally share with Helen?
(a) The baby is fake and she has been pretending.
(b) The baby may be premature.
(c) The baby is Geof's.
(d) The baby may be black.

10. What does Helen offer Jo before she and Peter leave?
(a) She offers Jo a room in their house.
(b) She offers Jo a vacation.
(c) She offers Jo a nanny.
(d) She offers Jo a hospital stay.

11. Why did Peter leave Helen?
(a) He did not leave her, he died.
(b) He went crazy and had to be locked up.
(c) He found another woman.
(d) He had to move but she did not want to.

12. Why does Geof leave when Helen arrives?
(a) He is ill and must go to the doctor.
(b) She asks him to leave, and he needs to pick up supplies for the weekend.
(c) He has been planning to leave Jo and this is his opportunity.
(d) He despises Helen and cannot stand to be in the same room as her.

13. What are Jo and Geof doing in the stage directions at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Geof is dancing and cleaning and Jo is reading.
(b) Jo is making a dress and Geof is sleeping on the couch.
(c) Geof is reading to the baby and Jo is taking a nap.
(d) Jo is cooking and Geof is planting flowers.

14. What does Geof still have to do for the evening?
(a) He has to fix the lock on the door.
(b) He has to take Jo to the doctor.
(c) He has to study for his exams.
(d) He has to go to work: he is on the night shift.

15. What does Jo plan to do as her condition becomes more obvious?
(a) She plans to quit work so people won't stare at her.
(b) She plans to marry Geof.
(c) She plans to give the baby to the downstairs neighbor.
(d) She plans to sail after her boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jo feel about the creation of life?

2. From what have Jo and Geof just come back?

3. What does Jo threaten to do if Helen doesn't leave?

4. Why does Peter keep singing?

5. What does Geof bring home that Helen does not approve of?

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