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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of entertainers are Flora and Bessie?
(a) Actors.
(b) Singers.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Clowns.

2. What does Serafina say is now her only concern?
(a) Her husband's ashes.
(b) The happiness of her daughter.
(c) The graduation dresses.
(d) Her own happiness.

3. Who did Peppina hear calling to her from inside the house?
(a) Estelle.
(b) Rosario.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Serafina.

4. Who is Father de Leo talking to at the beginning of the scene?
(a) Serafina.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Assunta.

5. Who are the graduation dresses for?
(a) The women's daughters.
(b) The women's cutomers.
(c) The women's granddaughters.
(d) The women.

6. Which of the characters is dead?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Rosario.
(d) Assunta.

7. What does Serafina say she has lost?
(a) Her virginity.
(b) Her daughter's love.
(c) Her husband's love.
(d) Her daughter's gift.

8. Who is Rosario making his last run for that night?
(a) Brothers Romano.
(b) Brothers Mercutio.
(c) Brothers Coen.
(d) Brothers Grimm.

9. Who does the group agree should tell Serafina the news?
(a) Assunta.
(b) Rosario.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Father de Leo.

10. What does Serafina beg her daughter not to do?
(a) Go to university.
(b) Go to the dance.
(c) Marry Jack.
(d) Leave her alone.

11. Who pleads with Serafina to release the graduation dresses?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Assunta.
(c) Miss Yorke.
(d) Petra.

12. What is Assunta's job?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A cook.
(c) An herbalist.
(d) A dressmaker.

13. What two cities is the play's setting located between?
(a) Houston and Dallas.
(b) Los Angeles and San Francisco.
(c) New York and New Jersey.
(d) New Orleans and Mobile.

14. Who does Serafina not want the women to behave improper in front of?
(a) The dog.
(b) Her dead husband.
(c) Herself.
(d) Rosa.

15. Who pulled Rose away from the window?
(a) Jack.
(b) Estelle.
(c) Rosario.
(d) Serafina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rosario's job?

2. What does Peppina say Rosa was wearing when she turned to look at her?

3. Who had been Rosario's lover?

4. What does Estelle want made?

5. What is Estelle's surname?

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