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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Widows and Children First: Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alan's response to Arnold's declaration?
(a) Relief.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Anger.
(d) Part disbelief.

2. Of what do both couples agree?
(a) That their individual relationships are honest and open.
(b) That they should swap partners sexually for a night.
(c) That love is not reliable.
(d) That they should split up.

3. What is the relationship between Arnold and the person he is taking with him to Ed and Laurel's?
(a) They are lovers.
(b) They are first cousins.
(c) Arnold is not taking anyone with him.
(d) They are siblings.

4. This short scene establishes the potential for a future conflict using a writing technique named what?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Red Herring.

5. What does Laurel want?
(a) To issue an invitation to Arnold.
(b) To see if Arnold knows where Ed is.
(c) To tell Arnold that Ed has died.
(d) To ask for Ed's baby pictures back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each person begin to question?

2. What is the subject of Ed's reading?

3. Where is Laurel visiting Arnold?

4. What couple is conversing at the same time as Arnold and Alan?

5. Where is the setting in Scene 3?

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