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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Ponza never bring to Signora Frola's apartment?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her friends.

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

6. Who says, "The truth, my dear, is that, with a husband who always claims to know everything, I never manage to know anything?"
(a) Signora Ponza.
(b) Signora Agazzi.
(c) Signora Sirelli.
(d) Signora Bologna.

7. Who says, "I thought she was trying to protect her son-in-law from suspicion. That seemed to be the whole aim of her visit?"
(a) Ponza.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Sirelli.

8. Who has seen Ponza's wife in the village in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) No one.
(d) Laudisi.

9. What did Ponza stand there waiting for Amalia to do, according to them in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Get tea.
(b) Take a drive.
(c) Leave.
(d) Come in.

10. What is Agazzi's position?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Governor.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Policeman.

11. Whose name does Laudisi forget several times in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Signora Cini.
(b) Signora Ponza.
(c) Signora Agazzi.
(d) Agazzi.

12. 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) Signora Frola.
(b) Amalia.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Agazzi.

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

14. Who has arrived along with the Sirellis in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Signora Frola.
(b) Signora Ponza.
(c) Signora Zini.
(d) Signora Cini.

15. 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) Disbelieve.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children does Signora Frola say that her daughter has?

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

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

5. How many times does Dina say that she and Amalia have attempted to visit Senora Frola?

(see the answer keys)

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