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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) The light is bothering her.
(b) The room is bright enough without it.
(c) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.
(d) He is wasting electricity.

2. How does the scene end?
(a) Sam is sitting on the steps, smiling.
(b) Rose is sitting alone with her head in her hands.
(c) With Sam sitting alone with his head in his hands.
(d) Both Sam and Rose go into their respective apartments.

3. What happens when Mr. Sankey arrives?
(a) Everyone stops what they are doing.
(b) They ask where he is going.
(c) Everyone encourages him to join in.
(d) They continue as if he is not there.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?

2. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?

3. What is Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?

4. Why does the group begin to break up?

5. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the police allow Mr. Maurrant to do? Why might they allow this?

2. How does the audience meet Shirley Kaplan?

3. How does Mrs. Maurrant react when Mrs. Jones tells her not to let her daughter get involved with a Jew? Why does everyone insist she not date a Jew?

4. How is the audience's assumption about the weather verified?

5. What is happening to the Hildebrand family?

6. What shocking remark does Sam make to Rose? How does she respond?

7. On what does Rose blame her father's attitude? What is Mrs. Maurrant's reaction?

8. What does Sam say when he interrupts his father and Lippo?

9. What does Mrs. Jones say about raising children?

10. How does the audience know Mr. Maurrant's personality immediately?

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