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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Nora that she can’t sing or carry a tune in Act I?
(a) Kate Jerome
(b) Blanche Morton
(c) Laurie Morton
(d) Eugene Jerome

2. How old is Nora Morton said to be in Act I?
(a) 15
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 17

3. What batter “lopes up to the plate” after the first walks in Eugene’s imaginary baseball game in the opening of Act I?
(a) Mel Ott
(b) Dickey
(c) JoJo Moore
(d) Ruffing

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

5. 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) Carry a block of ice home every afternoon
(c) Wash and iron his school clothes each day
(d) Wash the dishes

6. What is the name of the Broadway musical Nora says she’s going to be cast in, in Act I?
(a) Cats
(b) Abracadabra
(c) Hello Dolly!
(d) Les Miserables

7. What does Nora say will be on the stage in the Broadway musical she wants to be in, in Act I?
(a) A large see-through net
(b) A big water tank
(c) A giant ship
(d) A castle

8. How many times does Eugene respond his mother has told him not to leave his things around the house in Act I?
(a) 100
(b) 109
(c) 500
(d) 200

9. Eugene tells the audience in Act I, “If my mother knew I was writing all this down, she would” do what?
(a) Stuff me like one of her chickens
(b) Send me to a therapist
(c) Send me straight to college
(d) Ground me for a month

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

11. Where does Eugene say he’d be this winter if he made it into his favorite baseball team in Act I?
(a) Dallas
(b) St. Lauderdale
(c) St. Petersburg
(d) Miami

12. 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”?
(a) A roller skate
(b) A skateboard
(c) A train set
(d) A jump rope

13. In what class does Laurie say she’s got a big test tomorrow in the beginning of Act I?
(a) Math
(b) History
(c) Science
(d) English

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

15. Where does Kate describe her parents packing up and leaving the house to come to America in Act I?
(a) Russia
(b) Ukraine
(c) Germany
(d) France

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Laurie Morton described as in the stage directions from Act I?

2. What actress played the role of Blanche in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

3. Eugene says in Act I that one day he’s going to be a writer like whom?

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

5. What month is it in the opening of Act I?

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