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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Maurrant have just enough strength to do?
(a) Moan.
(b) Open her eyes and say Rose's name.
(c) Call out Mr. Sankey's name.
(d) Look at Rose.

2. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) The light is bothering her.
(b) The room is bright enough without it.
(c) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.
(d) He is wasting electricity.

3. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?
(a) Her son.
(b) The women on the stoop.
(c) Her elderly mother whom she takes care of.
(d) Herself.

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

5. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?
(a) The extreme heat.
(b) Their poverty.
(c) Their wild children.
(d) The lack of work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is heard throughout the scene?

2. When will Mrs. Hildebrand and her children be thrown out of their apartment?

3. What is noticeable about Mr. Jones, the next morning?

4. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?

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

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