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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rose tell Mr. Easter that he must leave?
(a) It is getting late.
(b) Or the whole building will be gossiping about her.
(c) She does not like him.
(d) Her father will be upset to see them together.

2. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?
(a) She has not heard from her children in two days.
(b) She has won the lottery.
(c) She cannot find her wallet.
(d) She has just seen Mrs. Maurrant and Mr. Sankey together.

3. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?
(a) Give them up for adoption.
(b) Throw them out.
(c) Treat them to a movie.
(d) Punish them.

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

5. What does Rose do when Sam kisses her?
(a) They embrace one another passionately.
(b) His embrace is passionate, yet she does not respond.
(c) His embrace is timide, while hers is passionate.
(d) They are both timid and shy.

6. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?
(a) How it is her job to make sure his dinner is ready when he comes home.
(b) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.
(c) It is her responsibitilty to make sure the children have all of their homework done.
(d) How it is her responsibility to know where her daughter is, that Rose should not be out so late.

7. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?
(a) She makes an offensive comment about Jews to Kaplan.
(b) She glares at all of the tenants.
(c) She makes Mrs. Hildebrand assign an agreement.
(d) She yells at the neighbors on the stoop.

8. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?
(a) He leaves to go after whoever had hurt his son.
(b) He hugs his son.
(c) He spanks his son.
(d) He yells at both his wife and son.

9. How do the ladies brush off Mr. Maurrant' mood?
(a) All men just want to get their way.
(b) Mrs. Maurrant does not do her job.
(c) He has a stressful job.
(d) That is just the way he is.

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

11. What does Sam do at Rose's request?
(a) He recites a poem.
(b) He goes to his apartment.
(c) He kisses her.
(d) He sings to her.

12. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?
(a) To the movies.
(b) Out to dinner.
(c) To the concert in the park .
(d) To a Broadway show.

13. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) New Yorkers.
(d) The poor.

14. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?
(a) Grim.
(b) Happy.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Bored.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emma Jones call Greta?

2. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?

3. How does the scene end?

4. What do the neighbors do when Ms. Simpson argues with Mrs. Hildebrand?

5. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?

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