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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brian admit scares him to death?
(a) The act of dying.
(b) Never seeing her again.
(c) Losing Mark.
(d) What happens in the after life.

2. How does Brian end his interview?
(a) By telling the interviewer that he really misses Beverly.
(b) By saying that the process of life and death shouldn't be taken seriously.
(c) By saying that he wishes he had a typewriter so that he could write again.
(d) By telling the interviewer that people here are too serious.

3. What does Brian indicate is the only thing that anyone can be sure of?
(a) Illness.
(b) Birth.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

4. What is unique about where Joe is staying?
(a) It has no privacy as people can see into the cottage at all times.
(b) It is designed to allow his body to heal.
(c) It is a specially equipped cottage.
(d) It has enough rooms for all of his family.

5. What does Agnes do that causes Felicity to chastise her and launch into a bawdy song?
(a) Reading the bible.
(b) Cleaning the cottage.
(c) Singing a hymn.
(d) Talking about Claire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition of what it means to be socially taboo?

2. Who comes in while Mark is putting away Brian's medications?

3. In what year did this play win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award?

4. How does Brian respond when he sees Beverly at the cottage?

5. What ends the tension between Beverly and Mark?

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