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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps George with his homework?
(a) Mr. Webb.
(b) Mrs. Webb.
(c) Emily.
(d) Mrs. Gibbs.

2. How does Mrs. Gibbs want to use the extra money she has coming in?
(a) Paint her house.
(b) Send her daughter to college.
(c) Go to Paris with her husband.
(d) Let her husband retire.

3. Why does Dr. Gibbs never leave his town?
(a) He has moral obligations to stay where he is.
(b) He worries about leaving his children.
(c) He does not want to leave the town without a doctor.
(d) He hates to travel.

4. What does Mr. Webb say of the people of the town that could be considered an insult?
(a) They are proud.
(b) They are selfish.
(c) They are dull.
(d) They are ignorant.

5. What does Mrs. Gibbs ask her husband to talk to George about at the beginning of the play?
(a) Not doing his share of chores.
(b) Getting poor grades in school.
(c) Being disrespectful to his mother.
(d) Not eating his dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the play, what is Mrs. Gibbs doing just as her husband comes home?

2. What personal detail about Simon Stimson do we learn from the stage manager?

3. Who does the stage manager introduce at the beginning of the second scene of the play?

4. Where does Mrs. Gibbs die?

5. At the beginning of the play, what does Dr. Gibbs say he has been up all night doing?

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