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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the women wonder about Mr. Maurrant?
(a) If he is suspicious of his wife's relationship with the milkman.
(b) If he really loves his wife and children.
(c) If he enjoys his job.
(d) Why he is so grumpy all the time.

8. Why does Willie ask his mother for a dime?
(a) For an icee.
(b) For an ice cream cone.
(c) For a piece of gum.
(d) For a candybar.

9. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?
(a) The extreme heat.
(b) Their wild children.
(c) Their poverty.
(d) The lack of work.

10. Where does this play begin?
(a) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(b) There is a large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.
(c) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.
(d) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.

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

12. What is Greta Fiorentino wearing?
(a) A bathing suit.
(b) A fur coat.
(c) A flowered housecoat.
(d) A summer dress.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?

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

3. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

4. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?

5. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?

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