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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eugene says he guesses his mom is upset because she and Jack can’t go to the affair where in Act II?
(a) Carnegie Hall
(b) The Commodore Hotel
(c) The Avery Theater
(d) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2. The letter to Blanche in Act II says, “I tried to reach you earlier, then realized you had no” what?
(a) Mail delivery
(b) Computer
(c) Phone
(d) Doorbell

3. Who does Laurie decide her mother looks like before she leaves for her date in Act II?
(a) Carole Lombard
(b) Grace Kelly
(c) Audrey Hepburn
(d) Katharine Hepburn

4. The men that Stanley gambled with are described in Act II as wearing “black pointy shoes with” what “on their socks”?
(a) Clocks
(b) Daggers
(c) Dice
(d) Cards

5. What grades are shown on Eugene’s report card in Act II?
(a) Four A’s and one B
(b) Four B’s and one A
(c) All A’s
(d) Three A’s and two B’s

6. What brand of cigarettes does Stanley say he smokes in Act II?
(a) Parliaments
(b) Marlboros
(c) Camels
(d) Lucky Strikes

7. Blanche says before exiting upstairs in Act II, “For people like us, sometimes the only thing we really own is our” what?
(a) Tolerance
(b) Privacy
(c) Sympathy
(d) Dignity

8. Eugene says of his mother in Act II, “If I told her I just lost both my hands in an accident she’d say” what?
(a) You’re always losing something
(b) Go get some new ones at the store
(c) Go upstairs and wash your face with your feet
(d) I don’t care what’s hurt. Just get ready for dinner

9. Where does Stanley work in Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) A hat store
(b) A candy store
(c) A pharmacy
(d) A shoe store

10. Where was Stanley gambling when he lost his salary in Act II?
(a) Ernest’s Café
(b) Williamson and Sons Drywall
(c) The Brooklyn Fire Station
(d) Florsheim Shoes

11. Laurie first says that her mother looks like what movie star when she descends the stairs for her date in Act II?
(a) Irene Dunne
(b) Rosalind Russell
(c) Katharine Hepburn
(d) Betty Grable

12. How much time passes between Acts I and II of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Two months
(b) One week
(c) One month
(d) Two weeks

13. Of whom does Jack say in Act II, “That child is pampered too much”?
(a) Nora Morton
(b) Stanley Jerome
(c) Laurie Morton
(d) Eugene Jerome

14. What does Kate lend to Blanche to wear on her date in Act II?
(a) An emerald ring
(b) A ruby necklace
(c) A pearl necklace
(d) A diamond necklace

15. What military branch is Stanley considering enlisting in, in Act II?
(a) The U.S. Marines
(b) The U.S. Army
(c) The U.S. Peace Corps
(d) The U.S. Navy

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Eugene say is his “life’s savings” stored in his cigar box in Act II?

2. How much money does Stanley give to his father that he earned setting pins at the bowling alley the night before at the end of Act II?

3. Eugene asks the audience in Act II, “How am I going to become a writer if I don’t know how to” what?

4. How long has the doctor told Jack Jerome to stay home and rest in the beginning of Act II?

5. Blanche says in Act II, “We’re all poor around here, the least we can be is” what?

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