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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the lighting on the stage?
(a) Streetlights run along stage left and stage right.
(b) The janitor's apartment windows are lit, as are those in the first floor. There is a red light coming from the demolition site.
(c) There is a bright light, reperesenting the sun.
(d) The lights in the home are on.

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

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

9. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?
(a) Dancing around, inebriated.
(b) Sitting on the stoop.
(c) Kissing on a bench.
(d) Sitting on the curb.

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

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

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

13. What do the women gossip about, regarding Mrs. Maurrant?
(a) A man named Sankey has visited her for the third time this week.
(b) Her husband is unkind to her, and she should divorce him.
(c) She is rude and disrespectful towards the other tenants.
(d) She is new to the neighborhood, so they discuss what they know of her.

14. 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) Both Sam and Rose go into their respective apartments.
(d) With Sam sitting alone with his head in his hands.

15. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(b) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.
(c) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.
(d) 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Sankey look?

2. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?

3. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

4. Upon what do the other women agree?

5. What do the women do, after Mr. Sankey's arrival?

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