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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does George give for not kissing Martha?
(a) He'd puke
(b) He's too drunk
(c) He'd get too excited
(d) He'd be unfaithful to his other wife

2. About what metaphorical trap does George warn Nick?
(a) Drop cage
(b) Bear trap
(c) Quicksand
(d) Bottomless pit

3. What does NIck have to drink?
(a) Scotch
(b) Water
(c) Gin and tonic
(d) Bourbon

4. Where does George tell Nick and Honey to put their coats?
(a) The Bedroom
(b) Anywhere
(c) The Floor
(d) The Hall Closet

5. What does Martha do with chromosomes, according to George?
(a) Wears them like earrings
(b) Pours them on her cereal
(c) Uses them as bath crystals
(d) Ignores them

6. What does George accuse Martha of doing during these faculty parties?
(a) Braying
(b) Flirting
(c) Babbling
(d) Dosing

7. Which of these is not a French insult that George and Martha hurl at each other?
(a) Putain
(b) Cyclope
(c) Bete
(d) Cochon

8. In Nick's mock plan for taking over the university, as what does he want to establish himself?
(a) A power-broker
(b) A stumbling block
(c) A nonentity
(d) An inevitability

9. What liquor did George's school friend mispronounce?
(a) Tequila
(b) Bourbon
(c) Gin
(d) Shiraz

10. Between which two colors do Martha and George argue, regarding their son's eyes?
(a) Blue and Hazel
(b) Blue and Green
(c) Brown and Hazel
(d) Green and Brown

11. To what poet does Martha compare George?
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b) e.e. cummings
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Ted Hughes

12. What does George think is the name of the film Martha is referencing?
(a) Rebecca
(b) Chicago
(c) The Magnificent Ambersons
(d) You Can't Take it with You

13. From what country do Nick and George think the toy gun comes?
(a) Italy
(b) China
(c) Japan
(d) India

14. Which of the following is not a university to which George compares the play's university?
(a) Cambridge
(b) M.I.T.
(c) Moscow U.
(d) Sorbonne

15. With what does George say he is preoccupied?
(a) Sex
(b) Children
(c) Biology
(d) History

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nick mispronounce the word "gaggle?"

2. Which studio does Martha say made the film she is referencing?

3. Where did Nick teach before coming to the university where the play is located?

4. What new nickname does Martha give George in the second half of Act 1?

5. Which mythical creature does George compare Martha to as he discusses his son with Nick?

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