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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the row of chairs on stage indicate in the first scene in Act 3?
(a) People.
(b) A class system.
(c) Graves.
(d) Money.

2. How does the stage manager describe the weddings in this town?
(a) Joyous and rowdy.
(b) Sweet and sentimental.
(c) Long and tedius.
(d) Plain and short.

3. What does Mr. Web say when he first comes home from work in the third act?
(a) He is tired.
(b) He feels that his life is being lived for him.
(c) He misses Emily.
(d) It is Emily's birthday.

4. Why does George decide to not go to college after all?
(a) He wants to pursue his baseball career.
(b) He and Emily realize they are meant to be together.
(c) He does not get good enough grades.
(d) He is afraid to leave his mother alone.

5. What does the stage manager urge the audience to do while George and Emily prepare to tell their story?
(a) Kiss someone they love.
(b) Fill their hearts and minds with loving thoughts.
(c) Remember what it was like to be in love.
(d) Pretend this is their story.

6. Who speaks the most during the wedding?
(a) The stage manager.
(b) Emily.
(c) Mrs. Soames.
(d) Mrs. Webb.

7. What does Emily not like about the cemetery?
(a) The dreary feeling there.
(b) Watching her loved ones grieve for her.
(c) Being new there.
(d) Not being able to communicate with the living.

8. What does the stage manager say is replacing automobiles while he chats with George and Emily?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Buses.
(c) Walking.
(d) Horses.

9. Why does Emily say what she thinks about just before she gets married?
(a) Her father crying.
(b) How handsome George is.
(c) She feels that things are good the way they are.
(d) She is scared.

10. What does George say when Emily tells him what she is worried about while drinking sodas with him?
(a) It is worth it.
(b) He likes her too,
(c) He will walk her home.
(d) He is happy to see her speechless.

11. What does Mrs. Webb say is cruel while at the wedding?
(a) Not allowing a mother to help her daughter get dressed on her wedding day.
(b) Sending young girls into marriage unprepared.
(c) Stealing a mother's daughter so soon after graduation.
(d) Forcing a mother to plan a wedding on such short notice.

12. How did Wally die?
(a) War wound.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Disease.
(d) Suicide.

13. What does the stage manager tell Emily and George to show the audience at the beginning of the fifth scene?
(a) The moment they fell in love.
(b) Their first date.
(c) Their first kiss.
(d) The moment they told their parents they were in love.

14. What does Emily tell George is the only thing she really wants?
(a) To be happy.
(b) To be loved.
(c) To feel safe.
(d) To have children.

15. What do Mrs. Gibbs's relatives say about her gravestone?
(a) It is too fancy.
(b) It is much simpler than she would have liked.
(c) It suits her perfectly.
(d) The saying is not appropriate for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing the stage manager says in Act 2?

2. What is the second real character that the stage manager plays?

3. What is the setting of the first scene in Act 3?

4. Who is to be buried at the beginning of Act 3?

5. What is Emily's natural feeling about men?

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