Death and the Maiden Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Act 1, Scene 1

1. Who is the first person on the stage when the play opens?

2. Where is the person in question #1 sitting?

3. What does the character in #1's answer grab when hearing a car?

4. Who invites the person in the car in for a drink?

5. Why is Gerardo apologetic?

6. What does Gerardo's wife ask him?

7. What happens to Gerardo's car?

8. What does Gerardo say his wife fails to do?

9. Gerardo wife replies to Gerardo's accusation by saying what?

10. What does Gerardo call their argument?

11. What happened to the car's jack?

12. Where is Paulina's mother going?

13. What...
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