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