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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bunny want Bananas to do if she were to move to the country in the guide books?
(a) Get better mentally.
(b) Get surgery.
(c) Get a divorce.
(d) Get a boyfriend.

2. What does Artie do in response to Bananas' reasoning for not seeing the Pope?
(a) Gives her more pills.
(b) Slaps her.
(c) Yells at her.
(d) Puts her to bed.

3. What is the character doing at the opening of the play?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Reciting a monologue.
(c) Sobbing uncontrollably.
(d) Pacing the stage.

4. How is the symbolic colorization in the Prologue physically represented on stage?
(a) Paint.
(b) A jacket.
(c) A strobe light.
(d) Props.

5. What is insinuated that Artie will attempt to do as the play unfolds?
(a) Leave his town.
(b) Find his love.
(c) Kill his enemy.
(d) Turn his fantasies into reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie do in the Prologue of The House of Blue Leaves that is a convention of plays first introduced here?

2. What kind of literature is referenced in Act II, Scene I, Part I?

3. What does Bananas say they can take down if Artie is not going to kill himself after all?

4. To what country does Bunny hand Bananas guide books for?

5. How does Bunny yearn to be noticed?

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