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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 Jo admit is her favorite season of the year?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

2. What is Jo's relationship to Helen?
(a) Jo is Helen's sister.
(b) Jo is Helen's aunt.
(c) Jo is Helen's daughter.
(d) Jo is Helen's mother.

3. What is the barbaric cult the boy feels he is suddenly trapped in?
(a) The Skins.
(b) Matrimony.
(c) The barroom.
(d) The Navy.

4. What important question does Jo's boyfriend ask her?
(a) He asks her what candy she like the best.
(b) He asks her what time to meet later.
(c) He asks her is she knows the identity of her father.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

5. What, because of the time period of the play, is the significant difference between Jo and her boyfriend?
(a) Jo is a young girl, and her boyfriend is an old man.
(b) Jo is very tall, and her boyfriend is very short.
(c) Jo is Caucasian and her boyfriend is African.
(d) Jo is English, and her boyfriend is American.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jo describe her complexion?

2. Why has Peter tracked Helen down?

3. What is the title of one of the movies Helen sees in the paper?

4. What does Jo's boyfriend do with the item she finds in his pocket?

5. Just before he leaves, what does Peter whisper to Helen (according to the stage directions)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Rather than Helen, who does Jo think of at the very end of the play that gives her comfort?

2. Why does Helen so dislike Geof?

3. Why has Helen returned to the apartment?

4. Where does Jo want to have the baby?

5. Why has Jo decided to let Geof stay, though they are not in a love relationship?

6. Who was Jo's first love, as she admits to Helen in Scene 1?

7. How has Helen and Peter's relationship changed since they have been married?

8. Why does Jo attack Peter, half-laughing, half-crying?

9. How does Peter feel about Jo in the first scene?

10. Why is Helen in ill health?

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