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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Signora Frola say that she and her friends arranged?
(a) Her daughter's divorce.
(b) Her daughter's humiliation.
(c) The pretense of a second wedding.
(d) Her daughter's death.

2. Who does Sirelli say the Prefect believes?`
(a) Laudisi.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) Signora Frola.
(d) Ponza.

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

4. Who says, "Excuse me, Signora, for wondering how it is... with your daughter here... after such a blow... that... it seems to me that survivors would need to stand together . . . ?"
(a) Signora Agazzi.
(b) Signora Frola.
(c) Signora Sirelli.
(d) Signora Laudisi.

5. Who appears at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Butler.
(b) Signor Capello.
(c) Dr. Mancini.
(d) Signor Pafunda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "At best a document might do you some good, it could satisfy your foolish curiosity?"

2. What does Laudisi tell the women has been found in Act 2, Scene 4?

3. Who arrives while Laudisi is alone in the house in Act 2, Scene 3?

4. What destroyed the village Ponza comes from?

5. Who says, "We are talking now, if I understand the matter, of a mother who sees that her daughter neither can nor should stay tied to her as she was before--because now she has a life of her own?"

(see the answer key)

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