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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he do after walking home?
(a) Stabs the dog.
(b) Strangles the dog.
(c) Shoots the dog.
(d) Gives the dog the rat poison.

2. What do the dog's eyes look like?
(a) Bloodshot
(b) Blue
(c) Yellow
(d) Green

3. Who says, "MY BENCH!"?
(a) Peter
(b) Neither
(c) Jerry
(d) Both

4. Why does Jerry suddenly run at Peter?
(a) To give him a hug.
(b) To stab him.
(c) To impale himself on the knife.
(d) To knock him down.

5. How does the play end?
(a) Jerry dies.
(b) Jerry gets off the bench. He was pretending to die.
(c) Peter dies.
(d) Peter holds Jerry in his arms until the police arrive.

6. What did Jerry do today?
(a) Went to see the animals and walked north to find someone, Peter.
(b) Sat in his apartment before coming to the park.
(c) Walked around the park looking for Peter.
(d) Rode the subway but never saw the zoo.

7. How many more times does Jerry try the plan?
(a) Two
(b) Five
(c) One
(d) Four

8. What does Jerry say would probably happen if a policeman did come over?
(a) Nothing
(b) Take Peter in as a nut
(c) Yell at both of them
(d) Write up a ticket

9. Jerry describes the dog as "Malevolence with an __________."
(a) Aptitude for negativity
(b) Easy going spirit
(c) Erection
(d) Attitude

10. What does Peter do to Jerry at this point?
(a) He leaves Jerry.
(b) He stops Jerry.
(c) He pushes Jerry.
(d) He yells at Jerry.

11. Who does Peter say that he was expecting this afternoon?
(a) His children
(b) A friend
(c) His wife
(d) Nobody

12. What does the dog quickly devour?
(a) His dog food.
(b) Jerry's finger.
(c) Scraps of food found on the sidewalk.
(d) The bag of meat.

13. In what is Jerry genuinely anxious?
(a) To know if the dog would be healthy.
(b) To know if the dog would take to him.
(c) To know if the dog survived.
(d) To know if the landlady had purchased a new dog.

14. What does Jerry call himself?
(a) A good friend
(b) A crazy fool
(c) A silly man
(d) A permanent transient

15. What happens soon after he has done this to the dog?
(a) The dog dies.
(b) The dog bites him.
(c) The dog becomes deathly ill.
(d) The dog chases after him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both men do?

2. What does Peter want Jerry to do?

3. Why does Jerry wipe the knife handle with his handkerchief?

4. What does the landlady ask Jerry to do for the dog?

5. What does Peter want to use the knife for?

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