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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. Who says, "You don't mean to say you understand it if a mother--unable to bear being away from the daughter--follows her and then is compelled to live apart from her in a city where after all she's a stranger too?"
(a) Laudisi.
(b) Dina.
(c) Agazzi.
(d) Amalia.

2. Who says, "The truth, my dear, is that, with a husband who always claims to know everything, I never manage to know anything?"
(a) Signora Ponza.
(b) Signora Sirelli.
(c) Signora Agazzi.
(d) Signora Bologna.

3. What did Ponza say about his mother-in-law, according to Amalia, in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) She had left.
(b) She was not well.
(c) She was not coming.
(d) She was out.

4. Who lives in the same apartment building as Agazzi?
(a) Laudisi.
(b) Signora Frola.
(c) Ponza.
(d) Signora Cini.

5. What is the literary technique called by which Laudisi speaks aloud in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Muttering.
(b) Aside.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Soliloquy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ponza say of his mother-in-law in Act 1, Scene 5?

2. What does Signora Frola say that she and her friends arranged?

3. How many times does Dina say that she and Amalia have attempted to visit Senora Frola?

4. What happens when the mother-in-law pulls the rope?

5. What does Laudisi ask that he go on doing when the townspeople have finished in Act 2, Scene 1?

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