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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the policeman not want anyone to do?
(a) Leave or enter the building.
(b) Wait for Mr. Maurrant to return.
(c) Stay outside.
(d) Go into the Maurrant's apartment.

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

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

4. What does the policeman do when he arrives?
(a) Calls for backup.
(b) Goes into the Maurrant's apartment.
(c) He goes down into the cellar with two men from the crowd.
(d) Looks for the marshal and Fred.

5. What happens after Mrs. Maurrant is heard yelling her husband's name?
(a) Mr. Sankey tries to jump out the window.
(b) The window glass breaks.
(c) Two gunshots are heard.
(d) Mr. Maurrant yells at Mr. Sankey.

6. What does Mary Hildebrand tell Rose and Mr. Kaplan?
(a) Her father has not returned.
(b) Her family is to be evicted from their apartment that afternoon.
(c) She is going to school with her brother.
(d) Her family just got back from the movies.

7. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she needs in her life?
(a) Something that brings her joy.
(b) A miracle.
(c) More time to herself.
(d) More money.

8. From where has Mr. Buchanan just got back?
(a) Work.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) Visiting his mother.
(d) Getting medicine for his wife.

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

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

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

12. What does Mr. Kaplan say about all the young people?
(a) They need to go to school.
(b) They too serious.
(c) They are naive.
(d) They are so unhappy.

13. 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.

14. How does Mrs. Maurrant respond when her daughter implies that Mr. Maurrant may be more kind, if her mother would not have a relationship with someone outside this marriage?
(a) She knows Rose and the neighbors are right.
(b) She is surprised that Rose is so observant.
(c) She agrees with Rose.
(d) She tells Rose that she cannot believe that she is acting like the others. She thought Rose would be the one person who would understand.

15. Where does Mr. Easter suggest they go after the funeral?
(a) The beach.
(b) Into the city.
(c) A movie.
(d) To dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Maurrant look like as he emerges from the building?

2. Who does Mr. Sankey awkwardly bump into coming out of the building?

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

4. What does Rose try to explain to Shirley that she has not meant to do?

5. What is Sam's reply when Rose asks what happened?

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