The Desperate Hours | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Act 1

1. What is the name of the deputy sheriff who is onstage at the opening of the first act?

2. What town is the setting for the play?

3. About what does Deputy Winston read a wire report?

4. Where does the situation in the wire report take place?

5. What name causes Bard to feel terror?

6. Why is Bard fearful of the man mentioned in the wire report?

7. For whom does Fredricks work?

8. Whose responsibility is the situation in the wire report?

9. For whom does Carson work?

10. Who is Samuel Robish?

11. To where does the setting of the scene shift?

12. Who is Cindy?