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