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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is heard from Ms. Olsen?
(a) A gasp.
(b) A scream.
(c) A laugh.
(d) A gun shot.

3. What does the couple wonder out loud?
(a) How much the rent will be.
(b) Whether that is the reason for the empty apartment.
(c) If the price of rent will be dropped.
(d) Whether the apartment has been cleaned.

4. What does Mr. Kaplan say about all the young people?
(a) They are so unhappy.
(b) They need to go to school.
(c) They too serious.
(d) They are naive.

5. What does Fred yell at the crowd?
(a) To go back home.
(b) Mr. Maurrant is about to run out of the building.
(c) To back away.
(d) To get help.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

3. What are Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Cushing doing as the couple goes up to take a look?

4. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter that sometimes she thinks?

5. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?

(see the answer key)

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