Death of a Salesman Test Review |155 Questions and Answers with complete solutions

"Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it." (15) - Willy "Because I know he's a fake and he doesn't like anybody around who knows." (58) - Biff "...he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, going into Boston-- when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral." (81) - Willy "I've often thought how strange it was that I knew he'd given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?" (94) - Bernard "Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. 'Willy Loman is here!' That's all they have to know, and I go right through." (33) - Willy "Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich." (48) - Ben "There is no time for false pride, Willy. You go to your sons and tell them that you're tired. You've got two great boys, haven't you?" (83) - Howard "His blue suit. He's so handsome in that suit. He could be a --anything in that suit." (72) - Linda "I put thirty-four years into this firm...and now I can't pay my insurance." - Willy "I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life." (22) - Biff"The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that." (97) - Charley "A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man." (56) - Linda "Just because he printed University of Virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean they got to graduate him, Willy." (32) - Bernard "A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime." (54) - Linda "The street is lined with cars. There's not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. The grass don't grow anymore, you can't raise a carrot in the back yard." (17) - Willy