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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the nephews spend all afternoon doing while the adults attended the wake?
(a) Eating mud pies.
(b) Collecting butterflies.
(c) Playing tag.
(d) Collecting frogs.

2. Larry tells Anna he can not keep from thinking about what happened to ______________.
(a) Jessie.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Burton.
(d) Pale.

3. Pale goes on about how he hates the social niceties of __________ and the like.
(a) Funerals.
(b) Churches.
(c) Dances.
(d) Apologies.

4. What causes Anna to finally get up from where she is sitting to answer the door?
(a) Her cell phone.
(b) Buzzer.
(c) Phone.
(d) Broken glass.

5. Anna admits that she is ___________ that Robbie's family never really knew him and that he was killed.
(a) Happy.
(b) Calm.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Larry chides Burton about where there will be _____________ in his new work.

2. Where is the company that Robbie was with, making it harder for them to come to his funeral?

3. What is the profession of Burton, a friend of Larry and Anna's during the play?

4. Pale begins to talk about his friend _______ who is a bartender, though Anna is not interested in this topic.

5. Who is Anna's other roommate who bursts in the door, trying to find out why she hasn't picked up the phone?

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