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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Jews, Irish and Germans
(b) Irish, Italians, and French
(c) Jews, Irish, and Italians
(d) French, Germans, and Polish

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

4. Eugene says in Act I that he “got hit with a baseball right in the back of the skull” and had double vision for a week and still had to do what chore?
(a) Take out the trash every morning
(b) Wash the dishes
(c) Wash and iron his school clothes each day
(d) Carry a block of ice home every afternoon

5. At what time does Nora say she must be at the theater to audition for the Broadway musical in Act I?
(a) 9:00 a.m.
(b) 11:00 a.m.
(c) 10:00 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nora tells her family in Act I that the Broadway musical she wants to be in will start rehearsing when?

2. Who played the role of Kate in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

3. What batter “lopes up to the plate” after the first walks in Eugene’s imaginary baseball game in the opening of Act I?

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

5. Kate describes the Murphy family across the street as belonging to what group in Act I?

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