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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Mrs. Maurrant respond when her daughter implies that Mr. Maurrant may be more kind, if her mother would not have a relationship with someone outside this marriage?
(a) She agrees with Rose.
(b) She tells Rose that she cannot believe that she is acting like the others. She thought Rose would be the one person who would understand.
(c) She knows Rose and the neighbors are right.
(d) She is surprised that Rose is so observant.

4. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she has always tried to do?
(a) Be happy with what she is given.
(b) Have hope.
(c) Find a way to have her own freedom.
(d) Give Mr. Maurrant everything he has wanted and be a good wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a constant throughout the play?

2. Where does this play begin?

3. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?

4. What happens when Sam tries to stop Mr. Maurrant?

5. What does Mrs. Jones not understand about the Kaplans?

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