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

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

3. Where were Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs before the third scene?
(a) Home.
(b) Choir practice.
(c) The school.
(d) The market.

4. Which of these does the stage manager NOT mention as having happened in the space between acts?
(a) Couples got married.
(b) Children learned to walk.
(c) Mountains eroded.
(d) Wars were waged.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stage manager say we do not know about ancient Rome and Greece?

2. Where is Joe killed?

3. Who talks with George after his parents go to bed?

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

5. What does Emily ask Mrs. Webb when she sees her mother after talking with Mr. Webb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mrs. Soames famous for?

2. How did Emily's brother die?

3. Who is the first character to speak in this play?

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

5. What is Mrs. Gibbs main complaint about her son at the beginning of the play?

6. What title did the stage manager give Act 1?

7. Why does George choose to not go to college?

8. What does Mrs. Gibbs warn Emily not to do in the third act?

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

10. What is the first actual character that the stage manager plays?

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