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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?
(a) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.
(b) How it is her responsibility to know where her daughter is, that Rose should not be out so late.
(c) It is her responsibitilty to make sure the children have all of their homework done.
(d) How it is her job to make sure his dinner is ready when he comes home.

4. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?
(a) Throw them out.
(b) Give them up for adoption.
(c) Treat them to a movie.
(d) Punish them.

5. What is Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?
(a) He sits on the stoop sobbing and calls himself a coward.
(b) He is pacing the sidewalk.
(c) He is hugging Rose.
(d) He is sitting silently on the curb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?

2. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?

3. What does Emma Jones call Greta?

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

5. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?

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