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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nora tells her mother in Act I that in taking this Broadway role she could be making almost how much money per week?
(a) $200
(b) $60
(c) $80
(d) $100

2. 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) Mel Ott
(d) Ruffing

3. What ailment does Eugene say his aunt Blanche suffers from in Act I?
(a) A heart flutter
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Asthma
(d) Cancer

4. How long does Kate say she’s lived in this house in Act I?
(a) 10 years
(b) 5 years
(c) 7 years
(d) 3 years

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

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

7. What does Kate say she’s never done before in her life and “why should I start with my own family” in Act I?
(a) Took a stand
(b) Voted
(c) Cooked
(d) Fought

8. Eugene tells the audience in Act I that he’s left instructions for his memoirs to not be opened until how many years after his death?
(a) 30
(b) 10
(c) 15
(d) 20

9. 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) Gutters
(c) Sidewalks
(d) Streets

10. How many years has Nora been in dancing school in Act I?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1

11. Brighton Beach is located in what borough of New York City?
(a) Queens
(b) Manhattan
(c) Staten Island
(d) Brooklyn

12. Kate tells Eugene to run across the street to what store to buy bread in Act I?
(a) Anderson’s
(b) Kroger’s
(c) Greenblatt’s
(d) Goldsmith’s

13. 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

14. What does Eugene’s mother tell him to get at the store as well as bread in Act I?
(a) Butter
(b) Flour
(c) Salt
(d) Ice cream

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nora say the Broadway musical she wants to be in will premiere first in Act I?

2. How many bedrooms are described as being seen by the audience upstairs in the Jerome house in the stage directions for Act I?

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

4. 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?

5. Eugene tells the audience in Act I that he’s committed a mortal sin by doing what?

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