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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. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?
(a) Sitting on the curb.
(b) Kissing on a bench.
(c) Sitting on the stoop.
(d) Dancing around, inebriated.

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

3. What is a constant throughout the play?
(a) The sound of the wind.
(b) A subway car going by under ground.
(c) Bird calls.
(d) Noise: the noise of the city.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tries to help Rose by yelling at Vincent?

3. Who does Alice Simpson represent?

4. Where does this play begin?

5. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the neighbors react to the new shots that were fired?

2. How does the audience know that Mr. Sankey and Mrs. Maurrant are having an affair?

3. Describe the set.

4. What marriage advice does Lippo give to Rose?

5. What are Rose's plans for the future?

6. Why are the women so interested in Mr. Buchanan?

7. How does the audience learn Mr. Filippo Fiorentino is Italian?

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

9. How does the audience meet Shirley Kaplan?

10. How does this scene show that Mr. Buchanan is a good husband?

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