View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the curtain rises in the first act, there are street sounds including laughter, cursing, and a radio. What other sound is heard?
(a) Piano playing.
(b) A phone ringing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Preaching.

2. The set for "The Amen Corner contains what components?
(a) A church and outside a church.
(b) Living room and bedroom.
(c) Home and church.
(d) Inside and outside of a house.

3. When Margaret enters the kitchen and sees David, how is she dressed?
(a) In white.
(b) In a dress.
(c) In her bathrobe.
(d) In black pastor robes.

4. Why does Margaret slap her son?
(a) He swears.
(b) He told her he was leaving the church.
(c) He stayed out all night.
(d) She smells whisky on him.

5. Who mentions a "heart black with sorrow" in Act II?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Sister Moore.
(c) Luke.
(d) Sister Boxer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Margaret when the play ends?

2. According to Odessa in Act III, every time that woman doesn't know if she's coming or going, what's going on nearby?

3. In Act III, who says that Margaret isn't living the life of a holy woman?

4. Where was David seen talking to a white horn player?

5. In Act II, Sister Moore suggests that Margaret has engaged in another wrongdoing. What is this wrongdoing?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 250 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample