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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?
(a) Public housing.
(b) Slums.
(c) Paying rent.
(d) The family unit.

2. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) The light is bothering her.
(b) The room is bright enough without it.
(c) He is wasting electricity.
(d) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.

3. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) 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.
(b) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(c) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.
(d) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.

4. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?
(a) He asks to see her mother.
(b) He berates her for her behavior at work earlier that day.
(c) He tells her he loves her.
(d) He pressures her into letting him upstairs and forces a kiss.

5. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?
(a) To the movies.
(b) Out to dinner.
(c) To a Broadway show.
(d) To the concert in the park .

6. What does Mrs. Jones not understand about the Kaplans?
(a) How they can read the newspaper in Hebrew.
(b) Why they do not go to a church.
(c) How they can sit and read all day long.
(d) Why they are Jewish.

7. How does Mr. Sankey look?
(a) Cheap, dressed in a low quality suit.
(b) Nervous and shy.
(c) Dirty and ragged.
(d) Wealthy and expensively dressed.

8. What do the neighbors do when Ms. Simpson argues with Mrs. Hildebrand?
(a) They go to their respective homes.
(b) They sit quietly and watch.
(c) They stand up for Mrs. Hildebrand.
(d) They agree with Ms. Simpson.

9. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?
(a) It was the best one he had ever been to.
(b) He did not like the type of music that was played.
(c) He liked the type of music; it just was not played well.
(d) He enjoyed the music.

10. What do the women wonder about Mr. Maurrant?
(a) If he is suspicious of his wife's relationship with the milkman.
(b) Why he is so grumpy all the time.
(c) If he really loves his wife and children.
(d) If he enjoys his job.

11. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?
(a) She has not heard from her children in two days.
(b) She has just seen Mrs. Maurrant and Mr. Sankey together.
(c) She has won the lottery.
(d) She cannot find her wallet.

12. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?
(a) She yells at the neighbors on the stoop.
(b) She makes Mrs. Hildebrand assign an agreement.
(c) She makes an offensive comment about Jews to Kaplan.
(d) She glares at all of the tenants.

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

14. What does Rose do when Sam kisses her?
(a) They embrace one another passionately.
(b) His embrace is timide, while hers is passionate.
(c) His embrace is passionate, yet she does not respond.
(d) They are both timid and shy.

15. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?
(a) Everyone should be able to live in peace and accept each other's differences.
(b) Everyone should find a job and quit complaining.
(c) Everyone should research the best options for improving the economy, rather than arguing over what they do not understand.
(d) Everyone should try to make the best of their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?

2. Why does the group begin to break up?

3. What do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?

4. What is the lighting on the stage?

5. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?

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