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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball team does Eugene dream of playing for in Act I?
(a) The Yankees
(b) The Dodgers
(c) The Red Sox
(d) The Blue Sox

2. Eugene says in Act I that one day he’s going to be a writer like whom?
(a) Chaim Potok
(b) Ring Lardner
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) Ernest Hemingway

3. 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) Jews, Irish, and Italians
(d) Irish, Italians, and French

4. What role did actor Peter Michael Goetz play in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Jack Jerome
(b) Frank Murphy
(c) Stanley Jerome
(d) Eugene Jerome

5. What is Kate’s response when Blanche tells her in Act I, “I’m going to pay you and Jack back someday. I don’t know when, but I keep my word”?
(a) From your lips to the Irish Sweepstakes
(b) I’m not worried about you paying us back
(c) I need the money now
(d) I know you will, Blanche

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Laurie Morton described as in the stage directions from Act I?

2. At what theater does Nora say she has to go to in order to audition for the Broadway musical in Act I?

3. What is Blanche Morton doing when the curtain rises for Act I?

4. Who complains of a splitting headache as Eugene plays imaginary baseball in the beginning of Act I?

5. What actress played the role of Nora in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

(see the answer key)

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