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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction when Miss Cushing appears at the Maurrant's window and yells for an ambulance?
(a) Everyone rushes to get an ambulance.
(b) Someone tells her to be quiet.
(c) Everyone stares at her in shock.
(d) No one pays attention to her.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What has Mr. Buchanan received because of his wife and new baby?
(a) A gift from his boss.
(b) The day off of work.
(c) A second job.
(d) One month of no rent.

8. Why do James Henry, a city marshal, and his assistant, Fred Cullen, stop in front of the building?
(a) They heard there was a break-in.
(b) They have a dispossess warrant for Mrs. Hildebrand.
(c) They are doing a routine patrol of the streets.
(d) They are looking for Mr. Maurrant.

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

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

11. What does Mrs. Maurrant do after she motions Mr. Sankey over to the window?
(a) Invites him upstairs.
(b) She tells him to go home to his wife.
(c) She runs back into her apartment.
(d) She gives him a kiss.

12. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she has always tried to do?
(a) Give Mr. Maurrant everything he has wanted and be a good wife.
(b) Have hope.
(c) Be happy with what she is given.
(d) Find a way to have her own freedom.

13. 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 life will still be so difficult.
(d) If people will still be mean to each other.

14. About what does Shirley want to tell Rose?
(a) Her new boyfriend.
(b) Her brother, Sam.
(c) Her school.
(d) Her summer courses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam do when Rose suggests running away?

2. How does Rose change the subject with Sam?

3. 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?

4. What is Mrs. Maurrant making for Mrs. Buchanan?

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

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