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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act Two: Scenes 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is passed out drunk on the table the first time the bar acts as a setting within the play's narrative?
(a) Jessie.
(b) Tracey.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Stan.

2. What crime does Tracey ask Oscar how to commit without getting caught?
(a) Burning down her own house.
(b) Robbing a bank.
(c) Burning down a factory.
(d) Murdering her boss.

3. How long did Stan spend in the hospital, during which time no Olstead managers contacted him?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

4. Toward whom does Stan repeatedly make unrequited romantic advances?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Jessie.
(d) Tracey.

5. In addition to performing maintenance work at the university, where else has Cynthia been working in order to make ends meet while Chris has been incarcerated?
(a) A nursing home.
(b) Olstead's.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cynthia say she used to let slip out onto the counter while she was shopping so that other people could see it?

2. In what year does Brucie say his father had picked his last bale of cotton?

3. What does Tracey say Cynthia can tell the managers she will do before she lets them take her life away?

4. Where does Chris stay immediately after he gets out of prison?

5. For how many years have Chris and Jason been imprisoned by the later of the two eras depicted in the play?

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