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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dina compare to the Ponza's strange behavior?
(a) Asking the neighbors to spy.
(b) Putting the cook's shoes on the table.
(c) Burning dinner.
(d) Uncorking wine after dinner.

2. What does Laudisi ask that he go on doing when the townspeople have finished in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Worrying.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Smiling.

3. Who says, "Or do you think the old lady should have asked your permission? Just because your father is above her son-in-law?"
(a) Corelli.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Ponza.
(d) Laudini.

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

5. What does Dina say that Signora Frola has shown the women in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) A marriage certificate.
(c) Letters from the hospital.
(d) Letters from her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did not receive Amalia and Dina when they paid a visit?

2. What does Ponza do immediately after Signora Frola has left in Act 2, Scene 9?

3. Who says, "There may be no precise facts, the proofs may be missing, but the truth--the truth must be on one side or the other?"

4. Laudisi says that all he knows is what?

5. Who calls Ponza's behavior cruelty in Act 1, Scene 4?

(see the answer key)

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