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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 a constant throughout the play?
(a) Bird calls.
(b) The sound of the wind.
(c) A subway car going by under ground.
(d) Noise: the noise of the city.

2. Over what do they argue?
(a) Where foreigners should live.
(b) Who is considered a foreigner.
(c) The person who discovered America, Leif Erickson or Christopher Columbus.
(d) The history of the United States.

3. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?
(a) You can always get divorced, if the marriage goes sour.
(b) 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.
(c) It is something everyone should try, at least once.
(d) Do not ever do it.

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

5. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?
(a) He liked the type of music; it just was not played well.
(b) He enjoyed the music.
(c) It was the best one he had ever been to.
(d) He did not like the type of music that was played.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?

2. How does Mr. Sankey look?

3. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?

4. What is the lighting on the stage?

5. Why does Willie ask his mother for a dime?

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