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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where has Mr. Buchanan just got back?
(a) Work.
(b) Visiting his mother.
(c) Getting medicine for his wife.
(d) The grocery store.

2. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?
(a) How it is her job to make sure his dinner is ready when he comes home.
(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) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.

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

4. Where does this play begin?
(a) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(b) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.
(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. What does Mrs. Maurrant have just enough strength to do?
(a) Look at Rose.
(b) Moan.
(c) Open her eyes and say Rose's name.
(d) Call out Mr. Sankey's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Shirley want to tell Rose?

2. What is Sam's reply when Rose asks what happened?

3. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?

4. Why is Shirley angered at Rose's comment?

5. What does Rose's father ask about Mr. Easter?

(see the answer key)

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