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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Webb chide Emily for when she first appears on stage?
(a) Teasing her younger siblings.
(b) Staying up too late at night.
(c) Studying while she eats.
(d) Being too slow to get up.

2. What does Mr. Webb congratulate Emily on when they talk during the second scene?
(a) Her beauty beginning to bloom.
(b) A good grade on a hard test.
(c) A fine performance at a dance recital.
(d) A fine speech she gave in class.

3. Where are Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs heading at the beginning of the third scene?
(a) Choir practice.
(b) The school.
(c) The market.
(d) Home.

4. What is happening to George to prevent him from playing baseball?
(a) He is buying a farm.
(b) He is going to war.
(c) He is getting married.
(d) He hurt his arm.

5. Who asks questions of Mr. Webb when he has finished his introduction of the town?
(a) Actors planted in the audience.
(b) Audience members.
(c) Mr. Webb's children.
(d) The stage manager.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does George want to be when he grows up?

4. What does George plan to do when he leaves his mother's house?

5. What does the stage manager plan to put into the time capsule?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the stage manager describe weddings in Grover's Corner?

2. What is George's greatest talent?

3. Why does Mrs. Webb not allow George to see Emily on the morning of their wedding?

4. What does the stage manager say that this wedding of George and Emily is a witness of?

5. What does George tell his mother he is most afraid of just before he marries Emily?

6. Who is the empty chair on stage reserved for?

7. What does the stage manager ask Emily and George to do before they show their wedding day?

8. What do the people sitting in the chairs represent in the third act?

9. Where does George go the minute he wakes up in Act 2?

10. Where does Mrs. Gibbs die, and what is she doing there?

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