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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 has enough rooms for all of his family.
(c) It is a specially equipped cottage.
(d) It is designed to allow his body to heal.

2. What is the main topic of this play?
(a) Hospital care.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Family relationships.

3. What causes Joe to be vigorous and in good humor?
(a) His wife and son are arriving soon.
(b) The interviewer is calming him.
(c) He has met a couple of friends at the other cottages.
(d) He has come to grips with his disease and fate.

4. How does Beverly feel about the information that Mark shares with her?
(a) She cannot process the information because she is drunk.
(b) She tells Mark that he is lying.
(c) She doesn't understand what he is saying.
(d) She finds it uncomfortable.

5. What caused Maggie and Steve to come to see Joe?
(a) The hospital insisted that they come immediately.
(b) He begged them to come and visit.
(c) He no longer has the option to go home.
(d) They insisted that they had to come one last time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Maggie and Steve while Joe is hospitalized?

2. What does Felicity tell the interviewer to undermine Claire?

3. What does Joe believe his illness has made him more of?

4. What does Brian indicate is the only thing that anyone can be sure of?

5. Why did Joe discourage his wife from coming to see him more often?

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