Sweat

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is Evan’s relation to Jason and Chris?  

A) Stepfather

B) Drug dealer

C) Parole officer

D) Love interest

2. How can one best describe the relationship between Stan and Tracey?

A) They hate each other.

B) They once had sex.

C) They once were married.

D) They are secretly in love.

3. Why does Jason discourage Chris from becoming a teacher?

A) Because teachers make little money

B) Because teachers are often in danger

C) Because teachers are the enemy

D) Because teachers have to be smart

4. What is Brucie’s response upon learning from Cynthia that his son, Chris, got into college and wants to become a teacher?

A) He offers to work extra hours and help Chris pay for it.

B) He calls Chris a disappointment for leaving his wife and son.

C) He says Chris would be crazy to leave his factory job.

D) He says he is proud that Chris is the first in the family in college.

5. What is on the Spanish-language poster that Oscar shows Tracey?

A) An ad for jobs at the factory

B) A threat toward all undocumented immigrants

C) Information about food stamps

D) Notice of the factory shutdown

6. How does Stan respond when Jessie repeats the rumor that Cynthia was only promoted because she’s Black?

A) Stan agrees that Tracey should have gotten the promotion.

B) Stan replies that Cynthia earned the promotion.

C) Stan is angry because he thinks he deserved it.

D) Stan reveals that Cynthia lied on her resume.

7. Why does Brucie give Chris his $10 back?

A) Brucie thinks Chris will need it even more than him.

B) Chris demands that Brucie may not buy drugs with it.

C) Brucie finds a wallet full of cash and decides to keep it.

D) Chris has been asking to be paid back for over a year.

8. Why does Chris find his mother living in an apartment after he gets out of prison?

A) She left his father.

B) She is trying to hide.

C) She got off the street.

D) She lost their house.

9. After the machines disappear, why does Cynthia advise the angry workers to cooperate with the Olstead executives?

A) NAFTA allows them to send them all to work in the Mexico plant.

B) NAFTA allows them to bring Mexican workers to take their jobs.

C) NAFTA allows them to sell the factory to Mexican business owners.

D) NAFTA allows them to move the whole factory operation to Mexico.

10. Why does Cynthia confess to Stan that she has been plagued with guilt?

A) She had to fire Tracey for insubordination.

B) She had to hire Spanish-speaking workers.

C) She had to lock workers out of the factory.

D) She had to lie in order to get a promotion.

11. Why does Chris become angry when he sees Brucie?

A) No one has seen Brucie in a month.

B) Brucie owes Cynthia a thousand dollars.

C) Brucie lost his job by showing up high.

D) Chris heard that Brucie was arrested.

12. When Oscar’s father swept floors in a factory like Olstead, how did the other workers react?

A) They didn’t acknowledge that he was sick.

B) They didn’t bother to learn his name.

C) They wouldn’t allow him on the picket line.

D) They wouldn’t give him a union card.

13. Who starts the fight that happens at the climax of the play?

A) Jason

B) Chris

C) Stan

D) Oscar

14. In Act 2, Scene 7, what does Evan tell Chris to avoid?

A) Talking about how he hates Jason

B) Thinking about what could have been

C) Going to the bar to see Stan and Oscar

D) Planning to start getting high again

15. When Jason shows up at the bar in the last scene, what happens between him and Chris?

A) Both donate money to Stan’s care.

B) Both are surprised to see each other.

C) Both take their revenge on Oscar.

D) Both start to fight with each other.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating textual details to support your response.

1. When Chris tells Jason about his plans to go to school, what does Jason tell Chris that he wants to do with his life?

2. What does Stan’s story about hurting his leg say about how Olstead treats their workers?

3. Why doesn’t Oscar care that all the picketing factory workers who come into the bar are angry and calling him a scab?