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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does B tell C about empathy?
(a) That empathy is an unnecessary emotion.
(b) That C will be old soon enough and won't have to imagine what it's like.
(c) That she should be more empathetic so that people will be empathetic with her when she is old.
(d) That having too much empathy can be bad for a person.

2. Who is sitting on the bench, at the foot of the bed, at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) A.
(b) The Boy.
(c) C.
(d) B.

3. How did A get rich?
(a) She was an actress.
(b) She married a rich man.
(c) She inherited a small fortune.
(d) She invested wisely.

4. What do B and C see when they walk in at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) They see The Boy hovering by his mother's bedside.
(b) They see an empty bed, and they are alarmed because they don't know where A is.
(c) They see that A has been covered with a sheet, and they think she is dead.
(d) They see that there has been no change in A's condition.

5. A refers repeatedly to the fact that Sis did what?
(a) Drank.
(b) Dated girls.
(c) Shoplifted.
(d) Had an abortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A have a tantrum about in Act 1, Part 4?

2. How many times did C have sex with the young man she describes in Act 2, Part 1?

3. What does A remember about flirting at work when she was younger?

4. What does C say about A and B in Act 2, Part 1?

5. What did A do that Sis objected to?

(see the answer key)

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