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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 Fred yell at the crowd?
(a) To back away.
(b) To get help.
(c) Mr. Maurrant is about to run out of the building.
(d) To go back home.

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

3. Where does Mr. Easter suggest they go after the funeral?
(a) A movie.
(b) Into the city.
(c) To dinner.
(d) The beach.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the lighting on the stage?

2. How does the scene end?

3. What does Sam suggest that Rose and he both do?

4. Why do James Henry, a city marshal, and his assistant, Fred Cullen, stop in front of the building?

5. Why does Rose tell Mr. Easter that he must leave?

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