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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball team does Eugene dream of playing for in Act I?
(a) The Dodgers
(b) The Blue Sox
(c) The Red Sox
(d) The Yankees

2. 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 World Series
(b) The Heisman Trophy
(c) The Major Leagues
(d) The Super Bowl

3. What batter walks in Eugene’s imaginary baseball game in the opening of Act I?
(a) Mel Ott
(b) Dickey
(c) Ruffing
(d) JoJo Moore

4. How is the Jerome house described in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) A wooden frame house
(b) A brick multi-level house
(c) A three-story brownstone
(d) A former boarding house

5. What does Kate tell Laurie to set out for the dinner table in Act I?
(a) Plates
(b) Napkins
(c) Glasses
(d) Bowls

6. 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) Voted
(b) Cooked
(c) Took a stand
(d) Fought

7. Who responds to say they’re excited for her when Nora asks in Act I, “My God, isn’t anybody excited?”
(a) Kate Jerome
(b) Jack Jerome
(c) Stanley Jerome
(d) Eugene Jerome

8. 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) Don’t go in the kitchen, Pa
(c) Quick – someone call an ambulance!
(d) Call Stanley in there first

9. What term refers to the method by which the narrator of Brighton Beach Memoirs speaks to the audience?
(a) Direct address
(b) Soliloquy
(c) Dialogue
(d) Terminal address

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

11. After listing his top baseball teams he’d like to play for one day, Eugene says that if it gets down to what team then he’d consider just being a writer?
(a) The Dallas Cowboys
(b) The Boston Red Sox
(c) The St. Louis Browns
(d) The Atlanta Braves

12. In Act I, Eugene says his name is the second worst name ever given to a male child. What is the “first worst” name?
(a) Peter Gnarley
(b) Chaim Potok
(c) Haskell Fleischmann
(d) Everly Williams

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

14. What ailment is Laurie Morton said to suffer from in Act I?
(a) Cancer
(b) A heart flutter
(c) Epilepsy
(d) Asthma

15. What actress played the role of Nora in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Gracie Bea Lawrence
(b) Jessica Hecht
(c) Elizabeth Franz
(d) Jodi Thelon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eugene claims that his grandfather died from what in Act I?

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

4. Kate tells her sister in Act I to stop sewing because she’s been doing it since what time this morning?

5. At what time does Nora say she must be at the theater to audition for the Broadway musical in Act I?

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