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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Joyce want the girls to go while they are in the yard?
(a) Out of the house.
(b) Over to Kit's house.
(c) To the movies.
(d) Into the house.

2. What does Marlene order to drink at the restaurant as the play opens?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Water.
(c) Soda.
(d) Wine.

3. Who seems the least upset as Griselda tells her story?
(a) Walter.
(b) Nijo.
(c) Marlene.
(d) Griselda.

4. By the end of Act 1, Part 3, which woman's story seems the least probable or realistic?
(a) Isabella.
(b) Marlene.
(c) Gret.
(d) Nijo.

5. What does Kit want to be when she grows up?
(a) A career woman.
(b) A movie star.
(c) A mother.
(d) A nuclear physicist.

6. Why do people think Angie is strange?
(a) She does not have any friends.
(b) She hangs out with someone much older.
(c) She frightened all the friends she had.
(d) She hangs out with someone much younger.

7. Which character seems to travel the most?
(a) Hennie.
(b) Pope Joan.
(c) Marlene.
(d) Isabella.

8. The job Jeanine will interview for with good pay also offers:
(a) A lot of free time.
(b) A lot of travel.
(c) Limited prospects.
(d) Great benefits.

9. What is Angie's secret?
(a) She does not like her mother.
(b) She has a secret boyfriend.
(c) She found out who her father is.
(d) She plans to run away.

10. How does Act 2, Scene 1 end?
(a) With an argument between Jeanine and Marlene.
(b) With a pep talk from Jeanine.
(c) With a pep talk from Marlene.
(d) With a reconciliation between Jeanine and Marlene.

11. What was Nijo's first child?
(a) Twins: a girl and a boy.
(b) She never knew.
(c) A girl.
(d) A boy.

12. Which character used to love getting dressed?
(a) Marlene.
(b) Pope Joan.
(c) Dull Gret.
(d) Nijo.

13. What might get in the way of a job with a lot of travel for Jeanine?
(a) Marlene does not think Jeanine can handle a job like that.
(b) Jeanine gets very lonesome when she travels.
(c) There are not many traveling jobs available.
(d) Women are not usually hired for traveling jobs.

14. Which character's children were taken away and never returned?
(a) Joan.
(b) Nijo.
(c) Griselda.
(d) Marlene.

15. What is the main topic of conversation in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Having babies.
(b) Careers.
(c) Travel.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Nijo take the course in life she did?

2. Where does Angie's aunt live?

3. How does Angie feel about her aunt?

4. Why did Griselda accept Walter's tests of her love?

5. What is the perk of the job Marlene mentions to Jeanine that has less pay?

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