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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corrinna confess to the audience after Artie runs out of the apartment to get Bananas and Bunny?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) She has agoraphobia.
(c) She does not know Billy.
(d) She is not an actress.

2. What will be taken away from Artie in the final moments of the play?
(a) His love.
(b) His dreams.
(c) His desire.
(d) His money.

3. Who does Artie call after realizing that the song he wrote has the same tune as Bananas' favorite Christmas song?
(a) Ronnie.
(b) The hospital.
(c) His parents.
(d) Billy.

4. Where does Artie tell Billy he met Bunny for the first time?
(a) A sauna.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A club.
(d) A movie.

5. What is Artie eager for that he expresses to the audience in the beginning of The House of Blue Leaves?
(a) Success.
(b) Money.
(c) Anonymity.
(d) Applause.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the symbolic color introduced in the Prologue represent the characters in the play?

2. What do the nuns drop from the roof of Artie's building?

3. What can the audience guess about the items in Ronnie's box that he wires together?

4. Who could Bananas' dream be a foreshadowing of?

5. Why does Ronnie desperately want to audition for Billy's movie?

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