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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Widows and Children First: Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Murray look like?
(a) He is not onstage, so the audience does not know.
(b) He is medium height, balding and wears glasses.
(c) He is buffed and quite handsome.
(d) He is short with a bit of a paunch around the middle.

2. What is the day when this act opens?
(a) Monday morning.
(b) Two months later.
(c) Sunday night.
(d) A year later.

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

4. Why does Arnold think Ed may be ashamed of him?
(a) Ed doesn't appear to be ashamed of Arnold.
(b) Because Ed never introduces Arnold to a chance encounter with any friends.
(c) Because Ed never introduces Arnold to Ed's parents.
(d) Because Ed will only be with Arnold in a gay bar.

5. What is Laurel's knowledge of the fact that Ed and Arnold were once lovers?
(a) She has no suspician about it whatsoever.
(b) It is not made clear how much she knows.
(c) She is aware of the fact.
(d) She has often suspected it but does not know for sure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting at the opening of the play?

2. Of what do both couples agree?

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

4. How is the person trying to awaken Arnold?

5. What does each person begin to question?

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