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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason why Mr. Maurrant does not like foreigners?
(a) They are rude.
(b) They smell funny.
(c) They come to America, trying to change things.
(d) They do not speak English.

2. What forms in front of the building?
(a) A pool of blood.
(b) A line of police officers.
(c) A bunch of tourists.
(d) A crowd.

3. Where does this play begin?
(a) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.
(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) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where has Mr. Buchanan just got back?

2. What does a sign on the set say about Prof. Filippo Fiorentino?

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

4. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?

5. How does Mr. Sankey look?

(see the answer key)

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