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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 Cynthia cite as making up half of her job as floor manager at Olstead's?
(a) Maintaining the machines.
(b) Schmoozing with the bosses.
(c) Yelling at people.
(d) Looking busy.

2. What ethnicity is Tracey?
(a) Columbian-American.
(b) African-American.
(c) Italian-American.
(d) White American.

3. To which state had Jessie and her boyfriend Felix planned to end up in after hitchhiking their way across the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Alaska.
(d) California.

4. Who has Brucie come to the bar to see when he is first told that Chris has gained admittance to college?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Chris.
(c) Tracey.
(d) Jessie.

5. What item does Tracey ask Jason to bring her the minute she arrives at Jessie's birthday party at the bar?
(a) A set of darts.
(b) A beer.
(c) A dollar.
(d) A cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cynthia recalls how Jessie had looked when they first met, what folk singer does she say Jessie looked like?

2. When Jason and Chris are leaving to see what is going on at the plant, who stops them to ask for money?

3. What does Stan say is at the core of everything?

4. How much of a pay cut does Brucie say that he and the other workers had offered to take, but was still refused by their company?

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

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