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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part Two, Act Three and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eric in the middle of doing when Henry visits in Act Three, Scene Two?
(a) Writing.
(b) Crying.
(c) Packing.
(d) Cooking.

2. In Act Three, Scene Three, where is Toby living?
(a) Tribeca.
(b) Gramercy Park.
(c) Hell's Kitchen.
(d) SoHo.

3. When does the opening of Part Two, Act Two take place?
(a) The morning after Eric's wedding.
(b) Eric's thirty-fourth birthday.
(c) Election day, 2017.
(d) Christmas Eve, 2017.

4. What do the play's final lines focus on?
(a) Henry's happiness.
(b) Walter's legacy.
(c) Leo's ambitions.
(d) Eric's kindness.

5. What does Eric point to as the primary way culture is transmitted?
(a) School.
(b) Stories.
(c) Museums.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item of Adam's clothing does Toby criticize in Act One, Scene Two?

2. Which character does not attend Toby's funeral?

3. Who is the author of The Inheritance?

4. What or whom does Henry believe deserves the credit for solving the problem of the AIDS epidemic?

5. After he runs into Leo outside the Strand, what does Toby discover Leo has left behind?

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