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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?
(a) She has won the lottery.
(b) She cannot find her wallet.
(c) She has just seen Mrs. Maurrant and Mr. Sankey together.
(d) She has not heard from her children in two days.

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

3. Why does the group begin to break up?
(a) It is becoming too hot.
(b) They are leaving to go to bed.
(c) They must go to work.
(d) They are tired of arguing.

4. What does Emma Jones call Greta?
(a) Mrs. F.
(b) Greta.
(c) Miss Greta.
(d) Mrs. G.

5. What does Shirley have sticking out of her bag when she arrives?
(a) A book.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A ruler.
(d) An umbrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lippo wonder about Mr. Maurrant?

2. About what does Mr. Maurrant ask?

3. Why do James Henry, a city marshal, and his assistant, Fred Cullen, stop in front of the building?

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

5. What does Rose do when the neighbors try to get her back in the building?

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