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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?
(a) Everyone should find a job and quit complaining.
(b) Everyone should research the best options for improving the economy, rather than arguing over what they do not understand.
(c) Everyone should try to make the best of their lives.
(d) Everyone should be able to live in peace and accept each other's differences.

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

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

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

5. What happens between Vincent and Sam?
(a) They have a heated debate.
(b) They get into an argument.
(c) They glare at one another.
(d) They get into a physical altercation.

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

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

8. What do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?
(a) Sing a song.
(b) Dance in the sidewalk.
(c) Play the violin.
(d) Turn on the record player.

9. 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 yells at the neighbors on the stoop.
(d) She makes Mrs. Hildebrand assign an agreement.

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

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

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

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

14. 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) It is her responsibitilty to make sure the children have all of their homework done.
(c) How it is her responsibility to know where her daughter is, that Rose should not be out so late.
(d) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.

15. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?
(a) He tells her he loves her.
(b) He asks to see her mother.
(c) He pressures her into letting him upstairs and forces a kiss.
(d) He berates her for her behavior at work earlier that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?

2. How do the ladies brush off Mr. Maurrant' mood?

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

4. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?

5. What do the women gossip about, regarding Mrs. Maurrant?

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