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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerardo offer Roberto?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A job.
(c) A cognac.
(d) Fifty thousand dollars to leave the country.

2. What does the character in #1's answer grab when hearing a car?
(a) Dinner out of the oven.
(b) A gun.
(c) A pair of binoculars.
(d) The telephone.

3. What does Roberto say is the real reason he stopped back at Gerardo's home?
(a) To demand his jack back.
(b) To ask if Paulina could meet with his wife.
(c) To congratulate Gerardo on his appointment.
(d) To see if he could stay the night.

4. Who invites the person in the car in for a drink?
(a) No one invites the driver inside.
(b) Gerardo Escobar.
(c) Paulina Salas.
(d) The grandmother.

5. Why is Gerardo apologetic?
(a) He burns dinner.
(b) He forgot to pick up the dry cleaning.
(c) He is quite late for dinner.
(d) He forgot to pick his wife up at the airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gerardo wife replies to Gerardo's accusation by saying what?

2. What does Roberto probably believe about the commission?

3. What does Paulina pretend when Gerardo comes back in the room?

4. Why were Gerardo and Paulina frightened by a visitor in the middle of the night?

5. What does Gerardo say his wife fails to do?

(see the answer key)

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