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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 is being developed in Laboratory A?
(a) A newly designed gas mask.
(b) Poison gas.
(c) A cure for tuberculosis.
(d) The atomic bomb.

2. Who is the first character to speak in the play?
(a) Lefty.
(b) Joe.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Fatt.

3. What is one thing Fatt accuses "reds" of doing?
(a) Supporting bosses against workers.
(b) Turning women into Christians.
(c) Spying on workers.
(d) Turning women into prostitutes.

4. How does Odets foreshadow some of the main characters in the play?
(a) Reveals each one slowly as the "voice."
(b) Has them all speak in Scene 1.
(c) Blacklists them for expulsion from the union.
(d) Makes them members of the workers' committee.

5. What does Joe and Edna's daughter Emmy need before going to school the next day?
(a) Her shoes repaired.
(b) A note for the teacher.
(c) To finish her homework.
(d) To eat a good breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do workers become committee members?

2. What does it mean when a character is called "yellow?"

3. How is Fatt described?

4. What does Joe mean when he says, "I rode the wheels off the chariot."?

5. Why is the research in Laboratory A so important at the time of the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the discussion about Fayette's office?

2. How does Edna's opinion about striking differ from Joe's opinion and why?

3. What are some reasons Joe doesn't want to strike?

4. How does Joe feel about his responsibilities as the man of the family?

5. How does Scene 6 foreshadow what will happen to Benjamin?

6. How does the cry to strike become a battle cry?

7. What are Dr. Barnes and Benjamin talking about when they refer to the "disease" and how is Benjamin affected by it?

8. What does Benjamin decide to do after being fired, and what had he been thinking about doing?

9. What is the benefit of having a speaker with experience with a strike talk to the workers?

10. What does Joe think of Lefty?

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