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