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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is heard throughout the scene?
(a) The piano being played by one of Lippo's students.
(b) Factory noises.
(c) Traffic noise.
(d) Birds chirping.

2. What does Fred yell at the crowd?
(a) To back away.
(b) To go back home.
(c) Mr. Maurrant is about to run out of the building.
(d) To get help.

3. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?
(a) Their poverty.
(b) The lack of work.
(c) The extreme heat.
(d) Their wild children.

4. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?
(a) The women on the stoop.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her elderly mother whom she takes care of.

5. What is noticeable about Mr. Jones, the next morning?
(a) He is headed to work.
(b) He is drunk.
(c) He is in a bad mood.
(d) He is up early.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Maurrant tired?

2. Why can the Hildebrands not pay the rent?

3. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?

4. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?

5. Where does this play begin?

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