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Trivia: Death Of A Salesman
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. For what does Linda criticize Happy?
Lawyer
Philandering
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
Math
2. What does Biff steal from Bill Oliver's office as an adult?
An impersonal corporate mentality
A pen
Tuesday
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
3. Where does the Loman family live?
Flutes
Brooklyn
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Biff
4. What does Howard show Willy in his office?
Harold
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
His sense of humor
His wire recorder
5. On the sales trip that immediately precedes the beginning of the play - which city did Willy reach before turning back?
He was in jail
Jenny
New England
Yonkers
6. Why does Linda believe that her sons should treat Willy kindly?
7. Where does the Loman family live?
Brooklyn
Yonkers
Charley
Jenny
8. On what day of the week does Willy die?
A crate of basketballs
Tuesday
He was in jail
Miller doesn't specify
9. According to Happy - which character is a 'poet and idealist?'
An impersonal corporate mentality
Flutes
Biff
84
10. Where did Ben become rich?
Flutes
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
32
African diamond mines
11. Who does attend Willy's funeral?
His sense of humor
84
Charley
Africa
12. Where does Biff find Willy with The Woman?
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Linda
Wire recorder
Boston
13. What does Willy promise the woman in the hotel room?
84
Stockings
A crate of basketballs
Jail cells
14. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father?
His sense of humor
Lobsters
Africa
Jail cells
15. Why does Bernard not help Biff cheat on the Regents exam?
Shipping clerk
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
$50
16. Who does attend Willy's funeral?
Philandering
Charley
His sense of humor
A pen
17. What does Howard Wagner represent?
Biff
An impersonal corporate mentality
He was in jail
84
18. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Stanley
Stockings
Linda
Yonkers
19. What is the name of Charley's secretary?
Jenny
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
His sense of humor
Philandering
20. Where did Willy's father go after he abandoned his family?
Obedient
Brooklyn
Stanley
Alaska
21. What was Willy Loman's father's profession?
Lobsters
Inventor
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
Jail cells
22. 'A man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.'Which character makes this statement?
Stanley
A pen
Lawyer
Linda
23. How old is Happy?
32
Biff
Brooklyn
Alaska
24. Why is Happy Loman perhaps less self-assured than Biff?
Math
Tuesday
Boston
Happy has never risked failure
25. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
Lobsters
Yonkers
Alaska
His wire recorder
26. What does Happy order from Stanley at the restaurant?
Lobsters
Charley
Miller doesn't specify
Happy has never risked failure
27. Why does Bernard not help Biff cheat on the Regents exam?
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
In a store
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
His shoulder pads
28. What product does Willy sell?
29. What does not describe Linda Loman?
Boston
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Obedient
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
30. For what region is Willy responsible in his sales?
Frank's Chop House
Lawyer
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
New England
31. What does Biff allow Bernard to carry to the Ebbets Field game?
His shoulder pads
Miller doesn't specify
Math
Tuesday
32. To what kind of store does Willy ask Stanley to direct him?
A seed store
Stockings
Charley
Charley
33. What causes the rift between Biff and Willy Loman?
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
Jenny
Africa
34. What does Howard show Willy in his office?
Lobsters
Biff never trains properly for his games
Wire recorder
His wire recorder
35. What object does Howard have in his office that frightens Willy?
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Working on a farm
He is a human being - and 'attention must be paid.'
Wire recorder
36. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father?
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Bernard is 'liked - but not well liked.'
Africa
Between thirty-four and thirty-six years
37. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Both men rely on their mother for meals and for laundry
Happy has never risked failure
Biff never trains properly for his games
Harold
38. Why does the woman choose Willy Loman?
A crate of basketballs
His sense of humor
Africa
Wire recorder
39. What product does Willy sell?
40. 'Fearless creatures' populate which place - according to Charley?
An impersonal corporate mentality
A pen
Wire recorder
Jail cells
41. Which character does not symbolize a type of success that Willy never achieves?
Math
A seed store
Linda
Stanley
42. What is Bernard's adult occupation?
Miller doesn't specify
Lawyer
African diamond mines
Boston
43. Why does Biff not go to college?
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
Biff never trains properly for his games
Lobsters
Boston
44. What subject did Biff fail in high school?
Alaska
A pen
Wire recorder
Math
45. What did Biff steal from Bill Oliver's store when he was a boy?
A crate of basketballs
Biff never trains properly for his games
Biff
Harold
46. Why does Biff not go to college?
Alaska
Stockings
He refuses to go to summer school to pass math
It is a state exam - and Bernard could be arrested
47. How much money does Charley usually give Willy each week?
A pen
Biff never trains properly for his games
$50
New England
48. What did Willy's father sell?
Philandering
Flutes
84
Harold
49. Why does Willy believe his sons will be more successful than Bernard?
50. What is not a problem that Biff has that Willy ignores?
Biff never trains properly for his games
Biff finds that Willy is having an affair
Wire recorder
Wire recorder