View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Mrs.Gibbs while Mr Gibbs is talking to George after school?
(a) The market.
(b) Choir practice.
(c) The garden.
(d) On a walk.

2. What does Joe do when he leaves town?
(a) Marries his sweetheart.
(b) Joins the Navy.
(c) Works at a big city newspaper.
(d) Goes to college.

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

4. At the beginning of the play, what does Dr. Gibbs say he has been up all night doing?
(a) Preparing a man for death.
(b) Drinking at the local bar.
(c) Attending to the wounds of two returned war veterans.
(d) Helping a woman give birth to twins.

5. What is Joe's occupation?
(a) Student.
(b) Grocer.
(c) Paperboy.
(d) Milkman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Gibbs chide George for when he first appears on stage?

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

3. Who asks Emily and her mother to leave during their discussion in the second scene?

4. What does the stage manager do before Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs leave the stage after the first scene?

5. What is Simon Stimson's occupation?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 263 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample