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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?
(a) Their poverty.
(b) The lack of work.
(c) Their wild children.
(d) The extreme heat.

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

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

4. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?
(a) Mr. Kaplan believes capitalism is going to be build up the economy.
(b) Kaplan believes it is the capitalist structure of the country that is harmful.
(c) They are discussing The Crash and how it has hurt the economy.
(d) They are complaining about their homes and lack of work.

5. What do the women gossip about, regarding Mrs. Maurrant?
(a) She is new to the neighborhood, so they discuss what they know of her.
(b) She is rude and disrespectful towards the other tenants.
(c) Her husband is unkind to her, and she should divorce him.
(d) A man named Sankey has visited her for the third time this week.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?

3. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?

4. When is Mr. Buchanan's wife due?

5. Upon what do the other women agree?

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