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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) The room is bright enough without it.
(b) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.
(c) The light is bothering her.
(d) He is wasting electricity.

2. What is Greta Fiorentino wearing?
(a) A bathing suit.
(b) A summer dress.
(c) A flowered housecoat.
(d) A fur coat.

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

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

5. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?
(a) Why he is not married.
(b) If he is available.
(c) Why he seems to like Rose.
(d) What is wrong with the young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the lighting on the stage?

2. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?

3. What is Rose doing as her father gets back from the bar?

4. Where does Mr. Easter tell Rose he will find her a job?

5. What do the women wonder about Mr. Maurrant?

(see the answer key)

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