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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fugue in a Nursery, Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one possible theme in this scene?
(a) Love's long-term effects cannot fully be realized until much later after the initial impact has diminished.
(b) It is impossible to be monogamous if you are not married.
(c) That temptation is avoidable through will power.
(d) That love is always a temporary state.

2. What does Arnold ask of Ed?
(a) For a cigarette.
(b) For Ed to go away.
(c) For sex for old times sake.
(d) For a hit of his cocaine.

3. Who is Ed dating?
(a) Laurel.
(b) Jacs.
(c) No one.
(d) Murray.

4. What is Ed's solution to his conflict?
(a) To do nothing.
(b) To buy a book about New York.
(c) To start a job search while still holding on to his other job.
(d) To date a woman.

5. Why is the backroom dark?
(a) For anonymity.
(b) So the video is clear.
(c) So the blacklight is effective.
(d) Because people are embarrassed to undress for a massage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arnold admit to himself?

2. What is the time frame of this setting?

3. Why does Ed date a woman as well as Arnold?

4. Who are onstage at the opening of this scene?

5. With whom is Arnold talking?

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