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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where has Mr. Buchanan just got back?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) Visiting his mother.
(c) Work.
(d) Getting medicine for his wife.

2. How does the police officer respond to Mr. Easter's question?
(a) Mrs. Maurrant left alive.
(b) A murder took place here.
(c) He does not know what happened.
(d) He has not seen her since this morning when they carried her mother from the building.

3. What does a middle-aged couple stop in front of the building and do?
(a) Look at the "for rent" sign.
(b) Talk to the other tenants.
(c) Read the newspaper.
(d) Gawk at the murder scene.

4. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?
(a) Kissing on a bench.
(b) Sitting on the curb.
(c) Sitting on the stoop.
(d) Dancing around, inebriated.

5. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.
(b) He is wasting electricity.
(c) The light is bothering her.
(d) The room is bright enough without it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam do when Rose suggests running away?

2. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

3. When is Mr. Buchanan's wife due?

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

5. What is Mrs. Jones telling Mrs. Olsen?

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