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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emma Jones call Greta?
(a) Greta.
(b) Miss Greta.
(c) Mrs. G.
(d) Mrs. F.

2. When will Mrs. Hildebrand and her children be thrown out of their apartment?
(a) In one week.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) Next week.
(d) In one month.

3. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?
(a) Deep down she likes him but knows he is married.
(b) He is a kind man who can give her what she needs.
(c) He is creepy and unreliable.
(d) She does not feel right about what he is asking of her.

4. Upon what do the other women agree?
(a) They want to move out of New York City.
(b) They love this neighborhood.
(c) Their older girls are never home.
(d) Their families are annoying.

5. How does Vincent Jones treat Rose?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He greets Rose and begins to harass her, moving his hands over her body.
(c) He hugs her.
(d) He greets Rose and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

6. Why does Mr. Buchanan rush out of the building?
(a) His wife is in labor.
(b) He is chasing after his wife.
(c) The building is on fire.
(d) He forgot to buy groceries.

7. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?
(a) His violin and five ice cream cones.
(b) Sheet music and a fiddle.
(c) A violin case and sheet music.
(d) Ice cream cones and a newspaper.

8. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?
(a) Why he is not married.
(b) Why he seems to like Rose.
(c) If he is available.
(d) What is wrong with the young man.

9. What does a sign on the set say about Prof. Filippo Fiorentino?
(a) He is a musician and teaches lessons.
(b) He is a music professor at NYU.
(c) He is a law professor at Yale.
(d) He is a biology professor at Princeton.

10. How does the scene end?
(a) Sam is sitting on the steps, smiling.
(b) Rose is sitting alone with her head in her hands.
(c) Both Sam and Rose go into their respective apartments.
(d) With Sam sitting alone with his head in his hands.

11. What has the country's heat wave caused?
(a) Power outages all around the city.
(b) Sales in ice to rise drastically.
(c) Milk all around the country to spoil.
(d) The deaths of six people in Chicago.

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

13. What is a constant throughout the play?
(a) The sound of the wind.
(b) Noise: the noise of the city.
(c) A subway car going by under ground.
(d) Bird calls.

14. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?
(a) He berates her for her behavior at work earlier that day.
(b) He asks to see her mother.
(c) He tells her he loves her.
(d) He pressures her into letting him upstairs and forces a kiss.

15. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?
(a) It is for better or worse and that if it does not turn out the way you expected than you just have to make do.
(b) Do not ever do it.
(c) You can always get divorced, if the marriage goes sour.
(d) It is something everyone should try, at least once.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?

2. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?

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

4. What is the lighting on the stage?

5. How does Mr. Sankey look?

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