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Trivia: Death Of A Salesman
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1. Why did Biff not keep in contact with his parents when he was out west?
His sense of humor
He was in jail
Harold
Jail cells
2. What does Biff steal from Bill Oliver's office as an adult?
Stockings
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
A pen
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
3. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Philandering
Flutes
Stanley
Miller doesn't specify
4. Who does attend Willy's funeral?
Boston
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Charley
5. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
Brooklyn
Working on a farm
Alaska
Charley
6. What is the name of the restaurant where Happy and Biff take Willy?
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7. Why does Biff not go to college?
New England
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Stanley
Alaska
8. How much money does Charley usually give Willy each week?
$50
84
Inventor
Charley
9. 'A man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.'Which character makes this statement?
Happy has never risked failure
A pen
Frank's Chop House
Linda
10. Why is Happy Loman perhaps less self-assured than Biff?
Happy has never risked failure
His shoulder pads
Harold
Miller doesn't specify
11. What was Biff doing in the West before the play begins?
Working on a farm
Alaska
Biff
Harold
12. Where does the Loman family live?
Flutes
Charley
Brooklyn
Stockings
13. What is the name of the restaurant where Happy and Biff take Willy?
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14. On what day of the week does Willy die?
84
Africa
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
Tuesday
15. What was Biff's position at Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
He was in jail
Alaska
84
Shipping clerk
16. What does not describe Linda Loman?
Brooklyn
Yonkers
$50
Obedient
17. What product does Willy sell?
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18. For what region is Willy responsible in his sales?
New England
Boston
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
A crate of basketballs
19. What does Biff allow Bernard to carry to the Ebbets Field game?
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
84
Charley
His shoulder pads
20. What was Willy Loman's father's profession?
In a store
$50
Happy has never risked failure
Inventor
21. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
Shipping clerk
Happy has never risked failure
A pen
Alaska
22. What does Biff steal from Bill Oliver's office as an adult?
A pen
Jail cells
A seed store
Harold
23. What does Howard Wagner represent?
Obedient
An impersonal corporate mentality
Alaska
Tuesday
24. 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
32
A crate of basketballs
25. What is the name of Charley's secretary?
$50
Jenny
Africa
Linda
26. What did Biff steal from Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
A crate of basketballs
Miller doesn't specify
$50
27. What object does Howard have in his office that frightens Willy?
Jail cells
Linda
Wire recorder
Frank's Chop House
28. What subject did Biff fail in high school?
Philandering
84
Tuesday
Math
29. What does not describe Linda Loman?
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
His sense of humor
Obedient
32
30. What product does Willy sell?
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31. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Stanley
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
A crate of basketballs
African diamond mines
32. Where does Happy work?
His wire recorder
In a store
His shoulder pads
Shipping clerk
33. How old was Dave Singleman when he died?
Frank's Chop House
Africa
A pen
84
34. What was Biff doing in the West before the play begins?
Working on a farm
Stockings
Africa
Lobsters
35. What does Willy promise the woman in the hotel room?
Happy has never risked failure
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Stockings
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
36. Why does Biff not go to college?
Shipping clerk
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
New England
Jenny
37. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
Lobsters
Philandering
Working on a farm
$50
38. 'A man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.'Which character makes this statement?
A pen
Happy has never risked failure
Linda
New England
39. What is the name of Charley's secretary?
Jenny
Biff never trains properly for his games
Tuesday
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
40. How old is Happy?
Tuesday
Happy has never risked failure
32
Alaska
41. How old was Dave Singleman when he died?
Miller doesn't specify
Jenny
Inventor
84
42. For what does Linda criticize Happy?
Shipping clerk
Harold
Philandering
He was in jail
43. According to Happy - which character is a 'poet and idealist?'
Africa
His sense of humor
Biff
Alaska
44. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Biff never trains properly for his games
Lawyer
Boston
His sense of humor
45. What did Willy's father sell?
His shoulder pads
Stockings
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
Flutes
46. What was Willy Loman's father's profession?
Inventor
Obedient
Tuesday
He was in jail
47. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Boston
$50
Wire recorder
Biff never trains properly for his games
48. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
Jail cells
Lobsters
Stanley
32
49. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
Harold
Tuesday
Philandering
His sense of humor
50. What is Bernard's adult occupation?
Lawyer
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Alaska
Flutes