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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arnold do in order to have some time to think over Ed and his relationship?
(a) Tells Ed to meet him outside the back but leaves out the front.
(b) Asks Ed to contact him in a few weeks.
(c) Tells Ed he has to talk to his astrologer again about their relationship.
(d) Asks Ed to go get the car.

2. What is the subject of Ed's reading?
(a) A love affair between an 80-year-old woman and a boy of fifteen.
(b) About the French revolution.
(c) How this new cologne is based on female pheromones.
(d) Nothing; he is not reading.

3. How often does Lady sing a torch song?
(a) Never.
(b) Between each scene.
(c) After each actor speaks.
(d) Only once at the beginning of the play.

4. How does Arnold try to justify the anonymous encounter?
(a) By saying it is an attempt at finding love.
(b) By saying he wanted to see what it was like to have sex with a man.
(c) By pointing out that the man was a lot bigger than Arnold and so Arnold was intimidated.
(d) By saying he didn't know what the stranger was going to do.

5. What does Arnold think of the gay bar scene?
(a) That he has met some wonderful friends there.
(b) That it is is humiliating and degrading.
(c) That he goes for the music.
(d) That it is a great place for sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what could the bed setting be symbolic?

2. Who is jealous of Alan?

3. What is the relationship between Arnold and the person he is taking with him to Ed and Laurel's?

4. What has taken Ed by surprise?

5. How might one characterize Laurel's motive for inviting Arnold over for the weekend?

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