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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the women do, after Mr. Sankey's arrival?
(a) They wonder why Mr. Sankey is at the apartment.
(b) They discuss the quality of the milk he sells.
(c) They disparage Mrs. Maurrant's character, one of them calling her a whore.
(d) They go back to their previous activities.

3. What do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?
(a) Turn on the record player.
(b) Play the violin.
(c) Dance in the sidewalk.
(d) Sing a song.

4. Where does this play begin?
(a) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.
(b) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(c) There is a large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.
(d) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.

5. Who does Alice Simpson represent?
(a) A charity.
(b) Child and family services.
(c) The government.
(d) A bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?

2. What does Sam urge Mrs. Jones to do?

3. What are the rest of the characters doing at the beginning of this scene?

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

5. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?

(see the answer key)

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