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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sam do at Rose's request?
(a) He recites a poem.
(b) He kisses her.
(c) He sings to her.
(d) He goes to his apartment.

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

7. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?
(a) Mr. Kaplan.
(b) Mr. Jones.
(c) Mr. Maurrant.
(d) Mrs. Jones.

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

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

10. What does Rose's father ask about Mr. Easter?
(a) If he is having problems with Rose at work.
(b) If there was something more, perhaps a physical relationship between her and her boss.
(c) If he has enough money to support Rose.
(d) If he is interested in seeing Rose.

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

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

13. 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 wonder why Mr. Sankey is at the apartment.
(d) They go back to their previous activities.

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

15. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?
(a) She glares at all of the tenants.
(b) She makes Mrs. Hildebrand assign an agreement.
(c) She makes an offensive comment about Jews to Kaplan.
(d) She yells at the neighbors on the stoop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?

2. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?

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

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

5. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?

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