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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who insists everyone be seated before the guests arrive?
(a) Ponza.
(b) Amalia.
(c) Agazzi.
(d) The Butler.

3. What does Laudisi ask Sirelli to do once he's come to the center of the room to him in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Touch him.
(b) Run.
(c) Dance.
(d) Kiss him.

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

5. What did Ponza say upon answering the door to Amalia?
(a) Nothing.
(b) I love you.
(c) Leave us.
(d) Hello.

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

7. Who calls Ponza's behavior cruelty in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Signora Ponza.
(b) Dina.
(c) Signora Frola.
(d) Agazzi.

8. Who is Ponza's mother-in-law?
(a) Signora Cini.
(b) Signora Sirelli.
(c) Signora Agazzi.
(d) Signora Frola.

9. Who says that she's herself and that's that?
(a) Signora Agazzi.
(b) Signora Sirella.
(c) Signora Ponza.
(d) Sirella.

10. Who does Dina say is arriving at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Her nephew.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Ponza.
(d) Her father.

11. What did Ponza say about his mother-in-law, according to Amalia, in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) She was not well.
(b) She was out.
(c) She was not coming.
(d) She had left.

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

13. Why does Amelia think that Ponza put his mother-in-law up in town?
(a) To keep her away from his wife.
(b) To flatter her.
(c) To bother them.
(d) To have an affair with her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who declares that Signora Frola was nearly crying after she has left in Act 1, Scene 4?

2. How many relatives does Signora Frola say they lost in the disaster?

3. Who arrives in Act 1, Scene 5 after Signora Frola exits?

4. What does Amalia say her husband claims Ponza is lacking in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. Where is the village the Ponzas are from?

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