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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?”
(a) Oh God I’m sorry, Pa
(b) Call Stanley in there first
(c) Don’t go in the kitchen, Pa
(d) Quick – someone call an ambulance!

2. How long have Blanche and her children lived in the Jerome household in Act I?
(a) 2 and ½ years
(b) 4 and ½ years
(c) 3 and ½ years
(d) 5 years

3. When arguing with her mother about leaving school to audition for Broadway in Act I, Nora says, “I’ll be making more money than” how many “girls with diplomas”?
(a) Thirty
(b) Five
(c) Ten
(d) Twenty

4. In what area of the stage is the entrance to the Jerome house in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) Stage Left
(b) Upstage
(c) Downstage
(d) Stage Right

5. Eugene tells the audience in Act I that he’s committed a mortal sin by doing what?
(a) Lusting after his mother
(b) Lusting after his cousin
(c) Stealing from a priest
(d) Committing adultery

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kate describe her parents packing up and leaving the house to come to America in Act I?

2. Nora tells her mother in Act I that in taking this Broadway role she could be making almost how much money per week?

3. Kate tells Eugene to run across the street to what store to buy bread in Act I?

4. How many years has Nora been in dancing school in Act I?

5. What term refers to the method by which the narrator of Brighton Beach Memoirs speaks to the audience?

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