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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character asks Signora Frola if she climbs all the stairs twice a day in Act 1 Scene 4?
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Ponza.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Sirelli.

3. Who is Amalia married to?
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Ponza.

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

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?"
(a) Laudisi.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Signora Frola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ponza say happened to Signora Frola's daughter?

2. Who says, "What a pompous attitude! Aren't people allowed to stay home and enjoy a little privacy?"

3. Who does Dina say is arriving at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who says, "Oho, you can be sure he's at the bottom of the whole thing. Maybe he has his mother-in-law under lock and key too?"

5. Where is the village the Ponzas are from?

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