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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the stage manager call the first act?
(a) Life and Death.
(b) Enduring Happiness.
(c) Daily Life.
(d) Love and Marriage.

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

4. Who tells Mr. Webb what George wants to be when he grown up?
(a) Emily.
(b) George.
(c) Mrs. Webb.
(d) The stage manager.

5. Why does Mrs. Webb panic when she sees George?
(a) He is not supposed to see Emily before the wedding.
(b) She is not fully dressed yet.
(c) He seems to be angry.
(d) She thinks something is wrong at the Gibbs's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Soames known in the town for?

2. Why is Mrs. Gibbs so worried about her husband?

3. At the beginning of the play, what does Mrs. Gibbs do when she first comes out of her house?

4. At the beginning of the play what does Mrs. Webb do when she first comes out of her house?

5. What is Emily doing when she asks her mother her very important question?

(see the answer key)

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