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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Scoop portray himself on the news program in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) As a lazy bum.
(b) As a hard-working professional.
(c) As the quintessential family man.
(d) As a ladies' man.

2. What does Heidi like from the same artist that she criticizes in the Prologue to Act 2?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The children in the painting.
(c) The use of black and red in the painting.
(d) The use of light and color.

3. What is the purpose of the organization that Heidi directs in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Scholarships for young women.
(b) Finding homes for battered women.
(c) Feeding the poor.
(d) Recognizing American women artists.

4. Based on her friend's reaction at the end of Act 2, Scene 5, what does Heidi decide to do?
(a) Move to Hawaii.
(b) Retire in New York.
(c) Postpone leaving indefinitely.
(d) Take her friend with her.

5. What event is taking place in Act 2, Scene 1, that brings the friends back together?
(a) Lisa's baby shower.
(b) Peter's graduation from medical school.
(c) Susan's wedding.
(d) Heidi's graduation from graduate school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Heidi's lunch partner constantly doing during lunch in Act 2, Scene 3?

2. What is Heidi's friend's reaction to her moving?

3. What does this Prologue to Act 2 foreshadow?

4. Where has Heidi been since Lisa and Scoop's wedding?

5. Who are the other two guests who join Heidi on the show in Act 2, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened in Heidi's life while she's been in Europe?

2. What decision does Heidi make in Scene 5, Act 2, regarding her future and why?

3. Heidi, Scoop and Peter are invited to Susan's morning news show two years later. What is the topic of discussion?

4. What is Heidi missing from other women?

5. What is Heidi's topic of her speech in 1986 to her high school alumni association?

6. What is Heidi's reaction to the "Hello New York" show while taping during Act 2, Scene 2? What does Heidi do?

7. What is Peter's emotional state when Heidi comes to tell him good-bye in the AIDS ward during Act 2, Scene 5?

8. What is currently going on with Scoop, Peter and Heidi during Act 2, Scene 2?

9. What is Heidi so critical of in the painting she is discussing in the Prologue to Act 2?

10. What has been going on in Scoop and Lisa's lives since their wedding?

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