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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. What is Ponza's apartment overlooking?
(a) The graveyard.
(b) The firefield.
(c) The orchard.
(d) The church.

2. What does Laudisi say to do with "what other people see and touch even if it's the opposite of what you see and touch?"
(a) Put down.
(b) Believe.
(c) Respect.
(d) Disbelieve.

3. What does Laudisi suggest as a reason the mother-in-law and her daughter live apart?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Incapatability of character.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Love.

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

5. What did Amalia say to Ponza at the door in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) That she came to see his mother-in-law.
(b) Hello.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That she brought bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Signor Sirelli say Ponza keeps under lock and key?

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

3. Who is Ponza's mother-in-law?

4. What does the Ponza family always wear?

5. Why does Amelia think that Ponza put his mother-in-law up in town?

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