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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bertozzo late for after speaking with the Maniac?
(a) Court.
(b) Getting his clothes from the cleaners.
(c) A meeting.
(d) Picking up his wife.

2. What is the file cabinet filled with that the Maniac examines in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Marriage licenses.
(b) Death certificates.
(c) Birth certificates.
(d) Citations.

3. What does the Maniac accuse the Inspector of being ignorant of?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Basic English language.
(c) Basic Italian grammar.
(d) Psychiatry.

4. Who does the Maniac pretend to be while on the phone in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) A nurse.
(b) Bertozzo's wife.
(c) Bertozzo's assistant.
(d) A judge.

5. In what city does the play take place?
(a) Sicily.
(b) New York.
(c) Rome.
(d) Milan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the illness the Maniac suffers from cause him to do compulsively?

2. Who says, "These characters have the power to save or destroy however and whenever they will: they toss out certain life sentences just the way someone might say, 'maybe it will rain tomorrow'?"

3. Where does the Maniac learn there will be a judge arriving from?

4. Where does the Maniac say the judge had been previously?

5. What is the Maniac being charged with in Act 1?

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