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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Widows and Children First: Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ed respond when he answers the phone?
(a) He is excited.
(b) He is wary.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He lets the phone ring.

2. What does Murray want Arnold to do?
(a) To go home and try to sleep off the drugs he took.
(b) To drive with him to Mexico City.
(c) Go to the back room.
(d) To jump off the Golden Gate bridge for his suicide.

3. What does Arnold prefer at the moment?
(a) A gin tonic.
(b) His privacy.
(c) Sleep to play.
(d) Work to sleep.

4. What is the main content of the monologue?
(a) A plea for political action for gay rights.
(b) A diatribe agains homosexuals.
(c) A list of reason why the talker is about to commit suicide.
(d) Frustrations at the lack of true love.

5. About what is Arnold still hurt?
(a) That Ed prefers a woman over him.
(b) That Ed cannot share his presence in his life with his parents.
(c) That Ed refused to have sex with Arnold one last time.
(d) Arnold is way past any hurt from Ed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Arnold talking about with the other person?

2. About what is Ed evasive?

3. What does Arnold think of the gay bar scene?

4. How much time has passed since the last scene?

5. What has the weekend stirred up?

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