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

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) Respect.
(b) Put down.
(c) Disbelieve.
(d) Believe.

3. Who is above Ponza at his office?
(a) Laudisi.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Sirelli.
(d) Cini.

4. What blinds the mother-in-law while she's talking to her daughter?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her veil.
(c) Her ignorance.
(d) The sunlight.

5. Who says, "What a pompous attitude! Aren't people allowed to stay home and enjoy a little privacy?"
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Laudini.
(c) Signora Agazzi.
(d) Signora Victrola.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who says, "Don't tell them what you see in me, because all four will tell you you are wrong, whereas you are not wrong in the least: I really am as you see me?"

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

5. Who does Signora Frola say was taken to a sanitarium in Act 1, Scene 6?

(see the answer key)

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