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