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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Signora Frola say was taken to a sanitarium in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Herself.
(d) Ponza.

2. Who has seen Ponza's wife in the village in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) No one.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) Agazzi.
(d) Laudisi.

3. What is the literary technique called by which Laudisi speaks aloud in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Soliloquy.
(c) Muttering.
(d) Aside.

4. Who does the Butler show in at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Cenora Laudisi.
(b) Sirelli and his wife.
(c) Senora Canelli.
(d) Senora Ponza.

5. Who arrives unexpectedly in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Signora Ponza.
(b) Signora Zici.
(c) Signora Frola.
(d) Signora Mancini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laudisi suggest as a reason the mother-in-law and her daughter live apart?

2. Who says, "Excuse me, Signora, for wondering how it is... with your daughter here... after such a blow... that... it seems to me that survivors would need to stand together . . . ?"

3. What does Ponza say of his mother-in-law in Act 1, Scene 5?

4. Who says that she's herself and that's that?

5. Who is above Ponza at his office?

(see the answer key)

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