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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 Max describe as "one flow of stinking pus after another?"
(a) Gangsters
(b) Politicians
(c) Generations
(d) Policemen

2. How does Max taunt Joey?
(a) Max says Joey is overweight.
(b) Max says Joey has few skills for his sport.
(c) Max says Joey will never have a good job.
(d) Max says Joey has no girlfriends.

3. When Max comes downstairs, what does he say woke him?
(a) Loud music coming from the radio
(b) Lenny shouting at Ruth as she leaves.
(c) Joey and Lenny arguing
(d) Teddy and Ruth arguing

4. Where did the deed to the house come from?
(a) It was won in a poker game.
(b) Max bought the house as a young man.
(c) It was a foreclosure.
(d) It was an inheritance.

5. What does Teddy tell Ruth about the house?
(a) Teddy says the house is about to be sold.
(b) Teddy says that he has never liked the house.
(c) Teddy says he was born in the house.
(d) Teddy says that five generations have lived in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Max say that Sam will be out of the house?

2. As the play begins, Lenny is in the living room of the house where he lives with which two other people?

3. What does Teddy reassure Ruth about?

4. Where does Lenny tell Ruth he thinks Teddy has been?

5. When he first appears in the play, Max enters the living room and is looking for a scissor for what reason?

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