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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 husband is Claire with when she first arrives in the town?
(a) 10th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 7th.

2. Who do the townspeople remark spent a night in their town in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Matisse.
(b) Schindler.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Renoir.

3. What is the name of the oil company the millionairess owns?
(a) Gulf Oil.
(b) American Oil.
(c) Getty Oil.
(d) Armenian Oil.

4. In Act 2, Scene 3, what music is playing?
(a) A classical dirge.
(b) A wedding march.
(c) A funeral march.
(d) A folk song.

5. Upon whose arrival are the townspeople awaiting in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Jacob's.
(b) Julie's.
(c) Ill's.
(d) Claire's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Claire's last name?

2. What is Ill's occupation?

3. Who was Claire's third husband?

4. To whom was the town museum sold in the play?

5. What does Claire say may be reintroduced to the town upon meeting the Priest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Claire go to the Village Wood? What is revealed in her first visit there?

2. What questions and answers take place between Ill and the townspeople in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3?

3. What does Ill notice about the customer purchases in Act 2, Scene 1?

4. What is the reaction to Ill's points in Act 2, Scene 3? How do they blockade him?

5. What other strange questions does Claire ask once at her hotel?

6. Describe the anonymity of the town in which the play is based. How does this reflect the people of the town?

7. How does the theme of denial progress in the townspeople through Act 2?

8. In the beginning of Act 2, what does Ill see from his window? What does he do?

9. What does Ill point out to prove his point in Act 2, Scene 3?

10. What does Ill come to notice about the appearance of his customers in Act 2, Scene 1? What is their reply?

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