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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the policeman not want anyone to do?
(a) Leave or enter the building.
(b) Stay outside.
(c) Wait for Mr. Maurrant to return.
(d) Go into the Maurrant's apartment.

3. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) The first floor windows and the bottom of the second story. To the left there is a partial view of the attached building, a storage warehouse under heavy construction. The house to the right is being demolished.
(b) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.
(c) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(d) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.

4. What does Mrs. Jones not understand about the Kaplans?
(a) How they can read the newspaper in Hebrew.
(b) Why they are Jewish.
(c) How they can sit and read all day long.
(d) Why they do not go to a church.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Rose bought her mother?

2. What is heard throughout the scene?

3. What does Rose think about her father?

4. Mrs. Jones tells Mrs. Olsen that while there is no excuse for murder, what does she think?

5. What does the couple wonder out loud?

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