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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When is Mr. Buchanan's wife due?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Last week.
(c) Two months.
(d) Any day.

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

4. Why does the group begin to break up?
(a) It is becoming too hot.
(b) They are leaving to go to bed.
(c) They must go to work.
(d) They are tired of arguing.

5. Who does Alice Simpson represent?
(a) Child and family services.
(b) A charity.
(c) The government.
(d) A bank.

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

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

8. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?
(a) He enjoyed the music.
(b) He liked the type of music; it just was not played well.
(c) He did not like the type of music that was played.
(d) It was the best one he had ever been to.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?
(a) Excited.
(b) Scared.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Rose doing as her father gets back from the bar?

3. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?

4. Why does Miss Cushing enter the scene excitedly?

5. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?

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