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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be heard as the play begins?
(a) Train.
(b) Someone shouting.
(c) Siren.
(d) Children playing outside.

2. What does Mrs. Stevenson think the police should do?
(a) Station extra patrolmen on her street.
(b) Come to her house.
(c) Call the telephone company.
(d) Search the entire city.

3. What is Mrs. Stevenson's husband's name?
(a) Elbert.
(b) Robert.
(c) Albert.
(d) Donald.

4. What does Mrs. Stevenson do after the operator tells her the number if busy in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Grits her teeth.
(b) Slams the phone down.
(c) Taps a pencil on her nightstand.
(d) Clicks the receiver.

5. Since what Sergeant Duffy ordered for lunch in Act I, Part 2, was not available, what does he wish had been brought to him to eat?
(a) Apple pie.
(b) Blueberry pie.
(c) Turnovers.
(d) Cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 1st Man say that the client does not want to happen to the woman in Act I, Part 1?

2. How many times does the phone ring when Operator 1 dials the number in Act I, Part 1?

3. What is the heavy-set man wearing as he speaks on the phone in Act I, Part 1?

4. What does Duffy reach for as he tells Mrs. Stevenson not to worry?

5. What is George to be sure of before he goes to the place the 1st Man is sending him in Act I, Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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