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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she has always tried to do?
(a) Give Mr. Maurrant everything he has wanted and be a good wife.
(b) Find a way to have her own freedom.
(c) Be happy with what she is given.
(d) Have hope.

3. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter that sometimes she thinks?
(a) She wants to run away.
(b) She would be better off dead.
(c) She would like to live outside the city.
(d) She wants to get a divorce.

4. What are Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Cushing doing as the couple goes up to take a look?
(a) They are going back into the building.
(b) They are busily gossiping about the day's events.
(c) They are praying for the Maurrants.
(d) They are sitting silently on the stoop.

5. According to Shirley, what is made more difficult by the heat?
(a) The control of her classroom.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Getting up and going to work.
(d) Sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?

2. What does Lippo tell Rose about the high temperature?

3. What does the couple wonder out loud?

4. What is Mrs. Jones telling Mrs. Olsen?

5. When does Rose believe people begin to feel stuck, like her mother?

(see the answer key)

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