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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does this play begin?
(a) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.
(b) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.
(c) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(d) There is a large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.

2. What does Sam tell his father he tried to do?
(a) Save Willie from this shock.
(b) Stay out Mr. Maurrant's way.
(c) Stop Mr. Maurrant and warn Mrs. Maurrant.
(d) Find Rose.

3. Why do James Henry, a city marshal, and his assistant, Fred Cullen, stop in front of the building?
(a) They heard there was a break-in.
(b) They are doing a routine patrol of the streets.
(c) They are looking for Mr. Maurrant.
(d) They have a dispossess warrant for Mrs. Hildebrand.

4. Where does Mrs. Jones think Rose could be?
(a) Perhaps the hospital.
(b) At work.
(c) In the apartment.
(d) At her aunt's home.

5. What does Mr. Maurrant do as he leaves for work?
(a) He harasses his wife and accuses her of letting other men visit her.
(b) He greets everyone in the apartment.
(c) He instructs his wife in her duties for the day.
(d) He storms out of the building without talking to anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Maurrant look like as he emerges from the building?

2. Why does Rose suggest the milkman not come around as often?

3. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?

4. What does Fred yell at the crowd?

5. What does Rose think about this terrible news?

(see the answer key)

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