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Trivia: Death Of A Salesman
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
An impersonal corporate mentality
Frank's Chop House
Obedient
Alaska
2. On the sales trip that immediately precedes the beginning of the play - which city did Willy reach before turning back?
Yonkers
Tuesday
He was in jail
His wire recorder
3. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father?
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Linda
Africa
Jail cells
4. For what does Linda criticize Happy?
Linda
New England
Philandering
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
5. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
Math
Alaska
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
He was in jail
6. Why does Linda believe that her sons should treat Willy kindly?
7. 'Fearless creatures' populate which place - according to Charley?
$50
Stanley
Math
Jail cells
8. What is Happy's real name?
Harold
Flutes
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Linda
9. 'A man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.'Which character makes this statement?
Biff never trains properly for his games
Linda
Working on a farm
Lawyer
10. Where does Biff find Willy with The Woman?
Boston
Philandering
His shoulder pads
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
11. What does Biff steal from Bill Oliver's office as an adult?
Alaska
A pen
New England
Stanley
12. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
His sense of humor
Wire recorder
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
13. What does not describe Linda Loman?
Alaska
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Jenny
Obedient
14. Where does Happy work?
In a store
Obedient
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Math
15. Which is not a sign of the Loman sons' arrested adolescence?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Shipping clerk
Lawyer
Biff
16. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Charley
$50
Biff never trains properly for his games
Linda
17. What was Biff's position at Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Brooklyn
Shipping clerk
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
18. Which is not a sign of the Loman sons' arrested adolescence?
Boston
Inventor
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Inventor
19. How old was Dave Singleman when he died?
84
Charley
$50
Wire recorder
20. What did Willy's father sell?
32
Jenny
Flutes
African diamond mines
21. Where did Ben become rich?
Happy has never risked failure
He was in jail
African diamond mines
Linda
22. Why does Willy believe his sons will be more successful than Bernard?
23. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Brooklyn
Stanley
$50
24. What causes the rift between Biff and Willy Loman?
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Obedient
Miller doesn't specify
25. On what day of the week does Willy die?
Lawyer
Tuesday
African diamond mines
His sense of humor
26. On what day of the week does Willy die?
Jenny
Happy has never risked failure
Tuesday
32
27. Why did Biff not keep in contact with his parents when he was out west?
Jenny
He was in jail
His sense of humor
New England
28. What is Happy's real name?
Lawyer
Harold
84
Frank's Chop House
29. How long has Willy worked for his sales firm?
Biff
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Philandering
Alaska
30. Where does Happy work?
$50
He was in jail
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
In a store
31. What did Biff steal from Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
A seed store
His wire recorder
A crate of basketballs
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
32. Why does Linda believe that her sons should treat Willy kindly?
33. What does not describe Linda Loman?
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Obedient
Working on a farm
Biff never trains properly for his games
34. What is the name of Charley's secretary?
Stanley
Linda
Jenny
Yonkers
35. Who does attend Willy's funeral?
Jail cells
Charley
His wire recorder
Africa
36. Which character states 'nobody dast blame this man?'
Frank's Chop House
Charley
New England
An impersonal corporate mentality
37. What does Willy promise the woman in the hotel room?
Tuesday
Jenny
Stockings
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
38. For what region is Willy responsible in his sales?
Biff never trains properly for his games
$50
Wire recorder
New England
39. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
Stanley
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
His sense of humor
Flutes
40. What does Biff allow Bernard to carry to the Ebbets Field game?
Alaska
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
His shoulder pads
Working on a farm
41. To what kind of store does Willy ask Stanley to direct him?
Africa
Wire recorder
Stanley
A seed store
42. Where does the Loman family live?
He was in jail
Lawyer
Brooklyn
Charley
43. According to Happy - which character is a 'poet and idealist?'
Boston
A seed store
Biff
Lawyer
44. Where did Ben become rich?
Charley
84
Obedient
African diamond mines
45. Why does Willy believe his sons will be more successful than Bernard?
46. What does Howard show Willy in his office?
He was in jail
84
Stockings
His wire recorder
47. What did Biff steal from Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
Miller doesn't specify
A seed store
A crate of basketballs
Africa
48. Who does attend Willy's funeral?
Charley
Boston
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
A seed store
49. For what region is Willy responsible in his sales?
84
New England
Math
Stanley
50. How long has Willy worked for his sales firm?
Alaska
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
A pen