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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wars is Laurie reading about in the opening of Act I?
(a) The Korean Wars
(b) The Macedonian Wars
(c) The Great Wars
(d) The Italian Renaissance Wars

2. What does Kate tell Eugene to place at the dinner table when she tells him to stop playing baseball in the beginning of Act I?
(a) The silverware
(b) The napkins
(c) The plates and bowls
(d) The water glasses

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

4. Kate tells her sister in Act I, “Remember what Momma used to tell us. Stay on your own side of the street. That’s what they have” what for?
(a) Doors
(b) Streets
(c) Sidewalks
(d) Gutters

5. What batter “lopes up to the plate” after the first walks in Eugene’s imaginary baseball game in the opening of Act I?
(a) JoJo Moore
(b) Dickey
(c) Ruffing
(d) Mel Ott

Short Answer Questions

1. What school classes does Nora say aren’t “going to help me on the stage” in Act I?

2. What year is described as the setting in the stage directions for Act I?

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

4. What ailment does Eugene say his aunt Blanche suffers from in Act I?

5. How long ago did Blanche’s husband die in Act I?

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