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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the stage manager plan to put into the time capsule?
(a) A drop of his blood.
(b) This play.
(c) Emily's journal.
(d) A picture of the townspeople.

2. What interrupts Emily as she is doing her homework during the second scene?
(a) A car horn honking.
(b) The church choir.
(c) A train whistle.
(d) The school bell.

3. What does the stage manager say during a pause in the wedding?
(a) One of these young people will die soon.
(b) Emily was wise to fear this wedding.
(c) Love is a beautiful thing.
(d) The patterns of life repeat themselves.

4. What advice does Mr. Webb give George as they talk in his kitchen?
(a) Keep your eye on the ball.
(b) Always strike first.
(c) Never procrastinate.
(d) Make sure your wife knows you are the boss.

5. Who asks Emily and her mother to leave during their discussion in the second scene?
(a) The stage manager.
(b) Mr. Webb.
(c) George.
(d) Mrs. Gibbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these does the stage manager NOT mention as having happened in the space between acts?

2. Why does Emily say what she thinks about just before she gets married?

3. What does Mrs. Gibbs serve for breakfast on the first morning of the second act?

4. What does Mr. Webb talk to George about when Mrs. Webb runs out of her kitchen?

5. What does the stage manager call the second act?

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