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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country does George warn against when he returns to the room?
(a) India
(b) Russia
(c) China
(d) Canada

2. What is Honey doing with a liquor bottle in Act 3?
(a) Peeling the label
(b) Cradling it like a baby
(c) Drinking the dregs of it
(d) Smashing it in the bathtub

3. What does George tell Martha is the first thing they have to do?
(a) Retain a priest
(b) Collect his effects
(c) Identify the body
(d) Call a funeral home

4. When, according to George,did he receive the fateful telegram?
(a) Before they went to the faculty party
(b) Between Acts 2 and 3
(c) Yesterday
(d) Between Acts 1 and 2

5. What does Martha knock into while she is necking with Nick?
(a) George's chair
(b) The door chimes
(c) The bar
(d) The record player

6. According to George, how old was their son when Martha was still trying to bathe him herself?
(a) Twelve
(b) Fourteen
(c) Sixteen
(d) Nineteen

7. In what sport is George's protagonist a champion?
(a) Football
(b) Swimming
(c) Baseball
(d) Boxing

8. As what does George say Martha uses their son?
(a) As a shoulder to cry on
(b) As a wallet
(c) As a club
(d) As a lover

9. What type of flowers is George carrying with him when he returns to the house?
(a) Daffodils
(b) Snapdragons
(c) Chrysanthemums
(d) Hyacinths

10. What does Martha say she has to put on her eyes since getting married?
(a) Blinders
(b) Rose-tinted glasses
(c) False eyelashes
(d) Windshield wipers

11. What onomatopoetic word does Martha use repeatedly to describe the moment she realized George was a lost cause?
(a) Snap
(b) Pop
(c) Crash
(d) Boom

12. How does George refer to his female protagonist in his "second novel?"
(a) Busty
(b) Mousey
(c) Hippy
(d) Swishy

13. What animal scared George and Martha's son, causing him to break his arm?
(a) A goat
(b) A chicken
(c) A dog
(d) A cow

14. What does George do during his game that offends Nick?
(a) He slips his drink on him
(b) He snaps at him
(c) He gropes Honey
(d) He calls him a gelding

15. For what reason does Martha say George married her?
(a) For her body
(b) For her father's influence
(c) For her money
(d) For her torture of him

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something to which Martha compares herself in her Act 3 monologue?

2. Where does George say he picked the flowers?

3. Honey obliquely mentions her hysterical pregnancy when she comes back into the room, but she calls it something else. What does she call it?

4. Which of the follow is not among the things that Martha says George can do for her, as she tells Nick that she loves him?

5. What does George suggest is under the bridge instead of water?

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