Trivia: Death Of A Salesman

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why does Willy believe his sons will be more successful than Bernard?

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2. What subject did Biff fail in high school?
His shoulder pads
Math
Stockings
Lawyer


3. Why does Willy believe his sons will be more successful than Bernard?

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4. How old was Dave Singleman when he died?
Inventor
84
Biff never trains properly for his games
Brooklyn


5. How old is Happy?
Inventor
Stanley
Miller doesn't specify
32


6. What is the name of the restaurant where Happy and Biff take Willy?

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7. What was Willy Loman's father's profession?
Inventor
An impersonal corporate mentality
32
$50


8. Why is Happy Loman perhaps less self-assured than Biff?
Happy has never risked failure
Obedient
An impersonal corporate mentality
Lawyer


9. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Brooklyn
Flutes
Stanley


10. 'Fearless creatures' populate which place - according to Charley?
$50
A seed store
Jail cells
His sense of humor


11. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
Africa
Math
His sense of humor
Philandering


12. What causes the rift between Biff and Willy Loman?
An impersonal corporate mentality
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
Linda
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years


13. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
His wire recorder
Africa
Flutes
Alaska


14. Why does Biff not go to college?
Yonkers
Philandering
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
He was in jail


15. Where does the Loman family live?
Brooklyn
Charley
84
Frank's Chop House


16. What did Biff steal from Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
A seed store
A pen
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
A crate of basketballs


17. 'A man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.'Which character makes this statement?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Linda
Math
Biff never trains properly for his games


18. Why does Bernard not help Biff cheat on the Regents exam?
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
Lawyer
Tuesday
Lobsters


19. Where does Happy work?
Miller doesn't specify
Charley
Lobsters
In a store


20. To what kind of store does Willy ask Stanley to direct him?
32
New England
Happy has never risked failure
A seed store


21. On the sales trip that immediately precedes the beginning of the play - which city did Willy reach before turning back?
Yonkers
Math
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
$50


22. Which character states 'nobody dast blame this man?'
African diamond mines
Stanley
Charley
Lobsters


23. What does Howard Wagner represent?
Inventor
His sense of humor
An impersonal corporate mentality
African diamond mines


24. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
His shoulder pads
Working on a farm
His sense of humor
Alaska


25. What is the name of Charley's secretary?
A pen
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
Jenny


26. On what day of the week does Willy die?
Africa
Tuesday
Working on a farm
Frank's Chop House


27. How much money does Charley usually give Willy each week?
$50
84
Working on a farm
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry


28. How much money does Charley usually give Willy each week?
$50
Inventor
Linda
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'


29. Which is not a sign of the Loman sons' arrested adolescence?
Frank's Chop House
Stockings
His sense of humor
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry


30. What does Biff allow Bernard to carry to the Ebbets Field game?
Jenny
His shoulder pads
Frank's Chop House
Stanley


31. What product does Willy sell?

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32. Where does the Loman family live?
Frank's Chop House
Flutes
Alaska
Brooklyn


33. How old is Happy?
Africa
An impersonal corporate mentality
Boston
32


34. What did Willy's father sell?
Flutes
$50
Biff never trains properly for his games
$50


35. To what kind of store does Willy ask Stanley to direct him?
Biff
Brooklyn
A seed store
Charley


36. What subject did Biff fail in high school?
Biff
Obedient
His wire recorder
Math


37. What does Willy promise the woman in the hotel room?
Jenny
A seed store
Tuesday
Stockings


38. Which is not a sign of the Loman sons' arrested adolescence?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Obedient
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
$50


39. What does Willy promise the woman in the hotel room?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Stockings
Linda


40. Why does Biff not go to college?
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Harold
An impersonal corporate mentality


41. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Biff never trains properly for his games
32
Harold
Philandering


42. What was Willy Loman's father's profession?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Inventor
Happy has never risked failure
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair


43. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
Lobsters
Working on a farm
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Stanley


44. How long has Willy worked for his sales firm?
In a store
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Inventor
Jenny


45. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
84
Shipping clerk
Charley
Lobsters


46. On the sales trip that immediately precedes the beginning of the play - which city did Willy reach before turning back?
Yonkers
A seed store
Stanley
African diamond mines


47. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father?
Yonkers
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
32
Africa


48. What is the name of the restaurant where Happy and Biff take Willy?

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49. What was Biff doing in the West before the play begins?
Philandering
Biff never trains properly for his games
Working on a farm
Charley


50. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
Inventor
A pen
Alaska
Stockings