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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sirelli call Ponza in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A goat.
(b) A gold-mine.
(c) A boor.
(d) A monkey.

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 . . . ?"
(a) Signora Agazzi.
(b) Signora Laudisi.
(c) Signora Frola.
(d) Signora Sirelli.

3. How does Ponza act in Act 2, Scene 8?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Enraged.
(c) Amazed.
(d) Joyful.

4. What does Ponza claim he was doing in Act 2, Scene 9, regarding his tears?
(a) Pretending.
(b) Being honest.
(c) Berating them.
(d) Crying.

5. How old is Dina?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Thirty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dina say she believes is mad in Act 2, Scene 2?

2. What was destroyed in Ponza's village in the disaster?

3. What did Ponza stand there waiting for Amalia to do, according to them in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who did not receive Amalia and Dina when they paid a visit?

5. Who says, "As a daughter, I don't claim my mother would climb ninety or a hundred stairs for me, but I wouldn't be satisfied with seeing her, without feeling her near me?"

(see the answer key)

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