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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a sign on the set say about Prof. Filippo Fiorentino?
(a) He is a musician and teaches lessons.
(b) He is a music professor at NYU.
(c) He is a biology professor at Princeton.
(d) He is a law professor at Yale.

2. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?
(a) He hugs his son.
(b) He yells at both his wife and son.
(c) He leaves to go after whoever had hurt his son.
(d) He spanks his son.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 wonder why Mr. Sankey is at the apartment.
(c) They go back to their previous activities.
(d) They discuss the quality of the milk he sells.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a constant throughout the play?

3. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?

4. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?

5. What do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?

(see the answer keys)

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