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