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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act Two, Scenes 3 and 4 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lily ask Godfrey to get her bags?
(a) She is afraid someone will steal them.
(b) She is moving in with the Crumps.
(c) They are too heavy for her.
(d) She just arrived from the airport.

2. What does Godfrey take as a weapon in Act Two, Scene 3?
(a) Ernestine’s sewing scissors.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Gerte's knife.
(d) The radio.

3. On what does Gerte congratulate Ernestine in Act One, Scene 6?
(a) Her paper.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) Graduating.
(d) Her graduation dress.

4. What does Ernestine say made her father wail?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Evil.
(c) Death.
(d) Pain.

5. What does Lily ask Ernestine to get in Act Two, Scene 2?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A bowl.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) An ashtray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lily promise her mother?

2. Where is Ernestine at the end of the play?

3. Where did Gerte grow up?

4. Who is the jazz musician Gerte heard in Berlin?

5. What happens to Lily at the end of the play?

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