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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. Why does Zonia say she and her father have to find her mother?
(a) Her mother is in trouble with the law.
(b) They need to bring her mother news.
(c) They need to give her mother an inheritance.
(d) Her mother ran away and left them.

2. Why can't Bynum tell Selig the meaning of life?
(a) He says Selig doesn't really want to know.
(b) He says Selig has to figure it out.
(c) He says Selig isn't ready to understand.
(d) He says Selig resists the knowledge.

3. Where does Seth chase Reuben and Zonia away from?
(a) the kitchen
(b) the front porch
(c) the church
(d) the vegetable garden

4. What was Jeremy arrested for?
(a) brandishing a knife
(b) being drunk
(c) stealing a cactus
(d) robbing a store

5. Why doesn't Seth want to tell Loomis where Martha is?
(a) He wants to keep Martha away from her daughter.
(b) He's afraid Loomis wants to harm her.
(c) He doesn't know for sure which Martha he's looking for.
(d) He wants Loomis to give him money first.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes between the end of Act 1, Scene 1, and the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Why does Selig say he can't find Bynum's "shiny man"?

3. What does Seth say about Martha's last name?

4. What does Reuben sell to Bynum?

5. How long does Seth say Bynum has been at the rooming house?

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