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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mr. Easter tell Rose he will find her a job?
(a) In a bank.
(b) On stage.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In a factory.

2. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(b) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.
(c) The first floor windows and the bottom of the second story. To the left there is a partial view of the attached building, a storage warehouse under heavy construction. The house to the right is being demolished.
(d) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.

3. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?
(a) Do not ever do it.
(b) It is something everyone should try, at least once.
(c) You can always get divorced, if the marriage goes sour.
(d) It is for better or worse and that if it does not turn out the way you expected than you just have to make do.

4. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?
(a) The poor.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) New Yorkers.

5. What is the lighting on the stage?
(a) The janitor's apartment windows are lit, as are those in the first floor. There is a red light coming from the demolition site.
(b) There is a bright light, reperesenting the sun.
(c) The lights in the home are on.
(d) Streetlights run along stage left and stage right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a constant throughout the play?

2. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?

3. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?

4. What has the country's heat wave caused?

5. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?

(see the answer key)

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