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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 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

2. What does Laurie ask for a glass of prior to dinner in Act I?
(a) Milk
(b) Lemonade
(c) Water
(d) Wine

3. Eugene wishes that he’d been born into what heritage in the opening of Act I?
(a) German
(b) Irish
(c) Italian
(d) Jewish

4. Eugene says he believes his father is developing what condition as a result of Blanche’s situation in Act I?
(a) Seasonal allergies
(b) High blood pressure
(c) Migraine headaches
(d) Glaucoma

5. Eugene’s brother Stanley is almost how old in Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) 17
(b) 21
(c) 19
(d) 16

Short Answer Questions

1. When Eugene mimes a ballgame in the opening of Act I, what name does he call the pitcher?

2. What is Kate carrying in Act I when she walks out of the kitchen and says to Eugene, “On my kitchen floor? Do you want me dead, is that what you want”?

3. In Act I, Eugene says his name is the second worst name ever given to a male child. What is the “first worst” name?

4. What does Eugene’s mother tell him to get at the store as well as bread in Act I?

5. How many unseen bedrooms are described upstairs in the Jerome household in the stage directions for Act I?

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