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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 department is Nick actually in?
(a) Biology
(b) English
(c) Political Science
(d) Physics

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

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

4. What comes out of the toy shotgun that George fires?
(a) A rubber ball
(b) Nothing
(c) A parasol
(d) A tiny flag

5. When Martha suggests that George should have listened to her in the bathroom, what does he suggest he would have done instead?
(a) Barged in
(b) Recorded
(c) Barricaded the door
(d) Peeked

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the faculty sport, according to George?

3. Against which innovation does George speak out vehemently?

4. Which of the following is not a university to which George compares the play's university?

5. According to George,the way to a man's heart is ___________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Martha describe Nick and Honey?

2. Where does the title of the play come from?

3. Describe the moment at the faculty party that Martha describes and how it affected her.

4. Describe the cloistered world that George and Martha have created at the beginning of the play.

5. How does Nick change over the course of the play?

6. How does George try to cheer Martha up at the end of the play?

7. Describe George and Martha's bit involving a kiss.

8. Why does George not dance?

9. What is Martha's response to Nick's offer to protect her?

10. How does George respond when Nick says "up yours" to him?

(see the answer keys)

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