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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Sankey look?
(a) Wealthy and expensively dressed.
(b) Dirty and ragged.
(c) Cheap, dressed in a low quality suit.
(d) Nervous and shy.

2. What happens when Mr. Sankey arrives?
(a) Everyone stops what they are doing.
(b) They continue as if he is not there.
(c) Everyone encourages him to join in.
(d) They ask where he is going.

3. What does Rose do when Sam kisses her?
(a) They embrace one another passionately.
(b) His embrace is timide, while hers is passionate.
(c) They are both timid and shy.
(d) His embrace is passionate, yet she does not respond.

4. Where does this play begin?
(a) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.
(b) There is a large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.
(c) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.
(d) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.

5. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?
(a) Happy.
(b) Bored.
(c) Grim.
(d) Nervous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?

2. Why does the group begin to break up?

3. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?

4. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?

5. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

(see the answer key)

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