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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 Mr. Kaplan believe is the cause of the troubles with the world?
(a) Natural disasters.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) Unkind people.
(d) Economic and social policy.

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

3. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?
(a) He enjoyed the music.
(b) He liked the type of music; it just was not played well.
(c) It was the best one he had ever been to.
(d) He did not like the type of music that was played.

4. How can the audience see some of the activities of the apartment residents?
(a) Small set are pulled to the front of the stage.
(b) They are performing their activities on the stoop.
(c) The set opens up.
(d) Through their windows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a constant throughout the play?

2. Where does this play begin?

3. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?

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

5. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?

(see the answer key)

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