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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress played the role of Blanche in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Jodi Thelon
(b) Elizabeth Franz
(c) Joyce Van Patten
(d) Gracie Bea Lawrence

2. What year is described as the setting in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) 1937
(b) 1939
(c) 1938
(d) 1941

3. What are the names of Kate’s brothers whom she says drove her mother crazy as they were growing up in Act I?
(a) James and Peter
(b) Mel and Stanley
(c) Ben and Ezra
(d) George and Sandy

4. Who responds to say they’re excited for her when Nora asks in Act I, “My God, isn’t anybody excited?”
(a) Kate Jerome
(b) Jack Jerome
(c) Eugene Jerome
(d) Stanley Jerome

5. In Act I, Eugene says his name is the second worst name ever given to a male child. What is the “first worst” name?
(a) Chaim Potok
(b) Peter Gnarley
(c) Everly Williams
(d) Haskell Fleischmann

Short Answer Questions

1. Eugene wishes that he’d been born into what heritage in the opening of Act I?

2. Eugene says in Act I that one day he’s going to be a writer like whom?

3. What role did actor Peter Michael Goetz play in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

4. In what class does Laurie say she’s got a big test tomorrow in the beginning of Act I?

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

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