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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress played the role of Blanche in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Gracie Bea Lawrence
(b) Joyce Van Patten
(c) Jodi Thelon
(d) Elizabeth Franz

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

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

4. 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) 20
(b) 15
(c) 30
(d) 10

5. When Eugene’s mother tells him to stop throwing the baseball against the wall in the opening of Act I, he tells her this game is for what?
(a) The Major Leagues
(b) The Super Bowl
(c) The World Series
(d) The Heisman Trophy

6. 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) Five
(b) Twenty
(c) Thirty
(d) Ten

7. What kind of sneakers is Eugene described as wearing when his character is introduced in Act I?
(a) Adidas
(b) Nikes
(c) Pumas
(d) Keds

8. Eugene says in Act I that one day he’s going to be a writer like whom?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) Ring Lardner
(c) Chaim Potok
(d) Samuel Beckett

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

10. What role did Zeljko Ivanek play in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Jack Jerome
(b) Eugene Jerome
(c) Stanley Jerome
(d) Frank Murphy

11. What school classes does Nora say aren’t “going to help me on the stage” in Act I?
(a) Science and Math
(b) Algebra and English
(c) Drama and Dance
(d) Calculus and Home Economics

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

13. What is Blanche Morton doing when the curtain rises for Act I?
(a) Sewing
(b) Doing dishes
(c) Cleaning
(d) Cooking

14. 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

15. 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) Wash the dishes
(b) Take out the trash every morning
(c) Wash and iron his school clothes each day
(d) Carry a block of ice home every afternoon

Short Answer Questions

1. What actor played the role of Eugene in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

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

3. What wars is Laurie reading about in the opening of Act I?

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

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

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