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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the women do, after Mr. Sankey's arrival?
(a) They disparage Mrs. Maurrant's character, one of them calling her a whore.
(b) They go back to their previous activities.
(c) They wonder why Mr. Sankey is at the apartment.
(d) They discuss the quality of the milk he sells.

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

11. Where does Mr. Easter tell Rose he will find her a job?
(a) In a factory.
(b) In a bank.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) On stage.

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

13. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?
(a) They are discussing The Crash and how it has hurt the economy.
(b) Mr. Kaplan believes capitalism is going to be build up the economy.
(c) Kaplan believes it is the capitalist structure of the country that is harmful.
(d) They are complaining about their homes and lack of work.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

2. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?

3. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?

4. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?

5. What is a constant throughout the play?

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