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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the method by which the narrator of Brighton Beach Memoirs speaks to the audience?
(a) Direct address
(b) Soliloquy
(c) Dialogue
(d) Terminal address

2. Whose brother-in-law is filling in for Jack Jerome while he’s out of work sick in the beginning of Act II?
(a) Mr. Anderson’s
(b) Mr. Smith’s
(c) Mr. Jacobson’s
(d) Mr. Murphy’s

3. Jack tells Kate in Act II, “I’m not going to leave you. I promise. If I didn’t leave you for another woman, I’m certainly not going to” what?
(a) Go to the hospital to leave you
(b) Leave you for another man
(c) Leave you for another family
(d) Drop dead just to leave you

4. The Jerome house is described in the stage directions for Act I as being in “a lower middle income area inhabited mostly by” what groups?
(a) French, Germans, and Polish
(b) Jews, Irish and Germans
(c) Irish, Italians, and French
(d) Jews, Irish, and Italians

5. Eugene tells the audience in Act I, “If my mother knew I was writing all this down, she would” do what?
(a) Ground me for a month
(b) Send me to a therapist
(c) Stuff me like one of her chickens
(d) Send me straight to college

Short Answer Questions

1. Stanley has been fired from his job for doing what?

2. What is Eugene’s response when his mother asks him in Act I, “What would you tell your father if he came home and I was dead on the kitchen floor?”

3. Blanche asks Kate in Act II if she remembers how their mother cried when who left home?

4. Where was Stanley gambling when he lost his salary in Act II?

5. Eugene tells the audience in Act I that he’s left instructions for his memoirs to not be opened until how many years after his death?

(see the answer key)

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