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