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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 Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?
(a) He is hugging Rose.
(b) He is pacing the sidewalk.
(c) He is sitting silently on the curb.
(d) He sits on the stoop sobbing and calls himself a coward.

2. How does Vincent Jones treat Rose?
(a) He greets Rose and gives her a kiss on the cheek.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He greets Rose and begins to harass her, moving his hands over her body.
(d) He hugs her.

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

4. What do the women wonder about Mr. Maurrant?
(a) If he is suspicious of his wife's relationship with the milkman.
(b) If he really loves his wife and children.
(c) Why he is so grumpy all the time.
(d) If he enjoys his job.

5. How does the scene end?
(a) With Sam sitting alone with his head in his hands.
(b) Both Sam and Rose go into their respective apartments.
(c) Rose is sitting alone with her head in her hands.
(d) Sam is sitting on the steps, smiling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?

3. Upon what do the other women agree?

4. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?

5. When will Mrs. Hildebrand and her children be thrown out of their apartment?

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