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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is heard from Ms. Olsen?
(a) A laugh.
(b) A scream.
(c) A gasp.
(d) A gun shot.

2. How can the audience see some of the activities of the apartment residents?
(a) Small set are pulled to the front of the stage.
(b) They are performing their activities on the stoop.
(c) The set opens up.
(d) Through their windows.

3. What does Sam urge Mrs. Jones to do?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Go and warn Mrs. Maurrant.
(c) Leave the building.
(d) Stop Mr. Maurrant.

4. According to Shirley, what is made more difficult by the heat?
(a) The control of her classroom.
(b) Getting up and going to work.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Thinking.

5. What does Fred find when he arrives?
(a) A dead woman.
(b) Two dead men.
(c) Two dead women.
(d) A dead man.

6. Why does Shirley tell Rose to stay away from her brother?
(a) If Rose is not in love with Sam, she should leave him alone.
(b) Her brother is too busy to be having a girlfriend.
(c) It is not good to get involved with someone so different from her.
(d) Rose is not good enough for her brother.

7. What does Rose ask Mr. Kaplan will happen, despite the removal of capitalism?
(a) If people will still be poor.
(b) If she will ever find happiness.
(c) If people will still be mean to each other.
(d) If life will still be so difficult.

8. Why is Mrs. Maurrant tired?
(a) She has had to deal with her moody husband.
(b) She has been helping Mrs. Buchanan nearly all night.
(c) She has been at work all night.
(d) She did not sleep well.

9. What is heard throughout the scene?
(a) Factory noises.
(b) Traffic noise.
(c) The piano being played by one of Lippo's students.
(d) Birds chirping.

10. What does Mr. Maurrant do as he leaves for work?
(a) He storms out of the building without talking to anyone.
(b) He instructs his wife in her duties for the day.
(c) He greets everyone in the apartment.
(d) He harasses his wife and accuses her of letting other men visit her.

11. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter that sometimes she thinks?
(a) She wants to get a divorce.
(b) She would like to live outside the city.
(c) She would be better off dead.
(d) She wants to run away.

12. What happens after another shot is heard?
(a) The neighbors rush into the apartment.
(b) Mr. Maurrant runs out of the building.
(c) Mrs. Maurrant jumps out the window.
(d) The marshal yells for someone to get an ambulance.

13. What is Sam repeatedly trying to find out?
(a) If Mr. Sankey was in the apartment.
(b) If Rose was in the apartment.
(c) Whether or not Mrs. Maurrant is still alive.
(d) Where Willie is.

14. What was done with Sam's mother's body?
(a) She cremated, and her ashes were spread out at sea.
(b) She was buried in her native Jerusalem.
(c) She was buried.
(d) She was cremated.

15. Sam, disgusted, tells Rose that this man will want only one thing in return for his assistance. How does she respond?
(a) What he says is not true.
(b) No one gets anything for free, and perhaps it would be worth it to get out of her current situation.
(c) If that is true, then she will not go along with this man's plan.
(d) That is what she is hoping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rose suggest the milkman not come around as often?

2. What does Fred tell the crowd?

3. What are the rest of the characters doing at the beginning of this scene?

4. What does Lippo tell Rose about the high temperature?

5. What is noticeable about Mr. Jones, the next morning?

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