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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.
(b) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(c) The first floor windows and the bottom of the second story. To the left there is a partial view of the attached building, a storage warehouse under heavy construction. The house to the right is being demolished.
(d) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.

2. Why does Mr. Buchanan rush out of the building?
(a) He is chasing after his wife.
(b) He forgot to buy groceries.
(c) His wife is in labor.
(d) The building is on fire.

3. What is Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?
(a) He sits on the stoop sobbing and calls himself a coward.
(b) He is sitting silently on the curb.
(c) He is pacing the sidewalk.
(d) He is hugging Rose.

4. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?
(a) Give them up for adoption.
(b) Punish them.
(c) Throw them out.
(d) Treat them to a movie.

5. What is Greta Fiorentino wearing?
(a) A bathing suit.
(b) A summer dress.
(c) A fur coat.
(d) A flowered housecoat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?

2. Why does the group begin to break up?

3. How does the scene end?

4. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?

5. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?

(see the answer key)

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