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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 does Alice say to Tony?
(a) Wait.
(b) Come in.
(c) Goodnight.
(d) Goodbye.

2. Where are Alice and Tony Kirby going?
(a) Out to dinner.
(b) To the symphony.
(c) To an art show.
(d) Out to a movie.

3. How does Grandpa challenge Mr. Henderson?
(a) To provide evidence he had parked illegally.
(b) To provide some evidence of where the funds will go.
(c) To an arm wrestling contest.
(d) To force him to serve jury duty.

4. How might Alice feel about being interrupted by her family members?
(a) Sad.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

5. What scenario mirrors the challenges of the American family endured during the dire economic times of the Depression?
(a) The lack of the acceptance of Alice's family by Tony.
(b) Alice and Tony being unsure if they have enough in common.
(c) Alice's desire to be a career woman.
(d) Alice's love for the family in spite of difficulties and differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice ask her family to do?

2. How is Alice compared to the rest of her family?

3. What has Grandpa never done?

4. Why is what this person shows her important?

5. What does Alice initially refuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this scene open? How does this continue to reflect the Sycamore family's quirkiness?

2. Describe Grandpa Vanderhof. From where is he returning? What does he enjoy about this activity?

3. What strangers arrive after the Kirbys? Why?

4. How does the second act open? What new character does the audience meet? How does she add to the comedic aspect of the play?

5. What does Alice say to Tony, regarding their relationship? Why does she say this? What assumptions is she making?

6. Why does Alice relent?

7. What might Tony's words "every couple has challenges with family dynamics" foreshadow?

8. How does Mrs. Kirby react to this strange family? How does her behavior make Alice's fears become realized?

9. How is Tony beginning to act more like the Sycamore family? Why?

10. What does Rheba recall? How does this information satisfy the audience?

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