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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. How old is Dina?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Nineteen.

2. 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) Agazzi.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Signora Frola.

3. How many times does Dina say that she and Amalia have attempted to visit Senora Frola?
(a) Three times.
(b) Once.
(c) Four times.
(d) Twice.

4. What does Laudisi say to the others is useless in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Their ambilalence.
(b) Their hostility.
(c) Their curiosity.
(d) Their anger.

5. Who says, "We come here as to the fountain, two poor women athirst for news?"
(a) Signora Sirelli.
(b) Signora Lubini.
(c) Signora Ponza.
(d) Signora Dubelli.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Laudisi ask Sirelli to do once he's come to the center of the room to him in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. What does Dina compare Ponza's eyes to in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who has arrived along with the Sirellis in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. When does Ponza say he married the second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Laudisi wonder about the wife in Act 3, Scene 2?

2. What about the documents makes them unreliable?

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

4. What is the plan Agazzi devises to bring Ponza and his mother-in-law together in Act 2, Scene 2?

5. What does Laudisi do alone in the room after the others have left in Act 2?

6. What is the outcome of the play? What does Signora Ponza tell the crowd?

7. What do the Sirellis argue about in Act 1, Scene 2?

8. How does Ponza react to the Prefect's suggestion? What is the Prefect's response?

9. What is the reaction the townspeople have to Laudisi in Act 1, Scene 2? How do they act on this?

10. What does the Prefect say to Ponza in Act 3, Scene 5?

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