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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name does Laudisi forget several times in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Signora Cini.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Signora Agazzi.
(d) Signora Ponza.

2. What does Amalia say her husband claims Ponza is lacking in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Decency.
(b) Truth.
(c) Repect.
(d) Honor.

3. Where is the village the Ponzas are from?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Bologna.
(c) Marsica.
(d) Roma.

4. What do they let up and down on ropes at the Ponza's house?
(a) Baskets.
(b) Bayonets.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Crates.

5. 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) Agazzi.
(b) Laudisi.
(c) Dina.
(d) Amalia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Signora Frola communicate with her daughter?

2. What does Laudisi suggest as a reason the mother-in-law and her daughter live apart?

3. What blinds the mother-in-law while she's talking to her daughter?

4. Who is Agazzi's daughter?

5. What did Ponza say about his mother-in-law, according to Amalia, in Act 1, Scene 2?

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