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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) Getting medicine for his wife.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) Visiting his mother.
(d) Work.

2. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?
(a) He berates her for her behavior at work earlier that day.
(b) He asks to see her mother.
(c) He pressures her into letting him upstairs and forces a kiss.
(d) He tells her he loves her.

3. What happens when Sam tries to stop Mr. Maurrant?
(a) He dodges Sam.
(b) Sam trips.
(c) He yells at Sam.
(d) He pushes Sam aside.

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

5. What does the policeman do when he arrives?
(a) Calls for backup.
(b) He goes down into the cellar with two men from the crowd.
(c) Looks for the marshal and Fred.
(d) Goes into the Maurrant's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Kaplan believe is the cause of the troubles with the world?

2. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she needs in her life?

3. What has the country's heat wave caused?

4. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

5. What does Mrs. Maurrant have just enough strength to do?

(see the answer key)

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