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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Signora Frola say to Amalia regarding not having paid a visit?
(a) She laughs at her.
(b) She apologizes.
(c) She sneers at her.
(d) She says she doesn't like her.

2. Who is Laudisi related to?
(a) Nenni.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Ponza.

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

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

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) Laudisi.
(c) Dina.
(d) Amalia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Signor Sirelli say Ponza keeps under lock and key?

3. Who says, "Excuse me, Signora, for wondering how it is... with your daughter here... after such a blow... that... it seems to me that survivors would need to stand together . . . ?"

4. What destroyed the village Ponza comes from?

5. What does the Ponza family always wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Agazzi tell the Prefect in Act 1, Scene 2? What was the Prefect's response?

2. What does Ponza overhear his mother-in-law say in the other room which upsets him in Act 2, Scene 7?

3. How does the Prefect respond to Laudisi's scheme in Act 3, Scene 4?

4. What does Laudisi say must be justified in the complaint the women have in Act 1, Scene 1? What is their response?

5. What does the Prefect say Ponza asked him to do? What does this prove in his opinion?

6. What are some of the sacrifices Ponza speaks of having endured because of the situation in Act 1, Scene 5?

7. What does Ponza make of the piano music in Act 2, Scene 7? Why?

8. What does Laudisi say of the documents in Act 3, Scene 1? What does he suggest to Centuri?

9. What does Amalia suggest about the daughter and the mother-in-law in Act 1, Scene 1? How does Laudisi reply?

10. Who has refused to receive Amalia in Act 1, Scene 1? How does Amalia know about this person?

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