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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(c) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.
(d) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.

5. What happens when Mr. Sankey arrives?
(a) Everyone encourages him to join in.
(b) Everyone stops what they are doing.
(c) They ask where he is going.
(d) They continue as if he is not there.

6. What is Rose doing as her father gets back from the bar?
(a) Searching through her purse for her keys.
(b) Looking out the window.
(c) Walking into the apartment.
(d) Sitting on the stoop crying.

7. 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.

8. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?
(a) Public housing.
(b) Paying rent.
(c) Slums.
(d) The family unit.

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

10. What is Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?
(a) He is hugging Rose.
(b) He is sitting silently on the curb.
(c) He sits on the stoop sobbing and calls himself a coward.
(d) He is pacing the sidewalk.

11. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?
(a) You can always get divorced, if the marriage goes sour.
(b) It is something everyone should try, at least once.
(c) Do not ever do it.
(d) 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.

12. How does Mr. Sankey look?
(a) Dirty and ragged.
(b) Cheap, dressed in a low quality suit.
(c) Wealthy and expensively dressed.
(d) Nervous and shy.

13. Over what do they argue?
(a) Where foreigners should live.
(b) The history of the United States.
(c) Who is considered a foreigner.
(d) The person who discovered America, Leif Erickson or Christopher Columbus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to help Rose by yelling at Vincent?

2. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

3. Why does the group begin to break up?

4. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?

5. What is a constant throughout the play?

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