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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act One: Scenes 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tracey tell Brucie are his two choices regarding his marriage to Cynthia?
(a) Move out or commit.
(b) Go to school or get a job.
(c) Get clean or get lost.
(d) Get sober or get out.

2. What ethnicity is Oscar?
(a) Columbian-American.
(b) Venezuelan-American.
(c) Mexican-American.
(d) Chilean-American.

3. How does Stan reveal that his leg had been injured, causing his limp?
(a) He had been attacked by a scab during a strike.
(b) His leg got caught in a machine at the mill.
(c) He had gotten a bad staph infection.
(d) He was in a bad car accident.

4. What record-breaking event does the playwright indicate has just happened at the start of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen by a record-breaking amount.
(b) A record number of students of color have been enrolled in fall courses at Penn State.
(c) A record number of state employees in Pennsylvania have been laid off.
(d) Reading, Pennsylvania is experiencing a heatwave that is breaking temperature records.

5. What question does Chris enjoy asking Stan every time he comes in, though he knows the answer?
(a) How his leg is feeling.
(b) What the latest news is.
(c) What kind of beer he has on tap.
(d) Whether he has hired a pretty bartender yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stan say is the best thing that has ever happened to him?

2. What does Stan say he had respected about Olstead's method of running the factory that none of the newer managers use?

3. Who is passed out drunk on the table the first time the bar acts as a setting within the play's narrative?

4. Who does Jessie threaten to beat up during Act 1, Scene 2?

5. When Chris and Jason encounter each other for the first time since their release from prison, what action do they take?

(see the answer key)

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