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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Odets foreshadow some of the main characters in the play?
(a) Makes them members of the workers' committee.
(b) Has them all speak in Scene 1.
(c) Reveals each one slowly as the "voice."
(d) Blacklists them for expulsion from the union.

2. How does the speaker approach the workers?
(a) With wit and calmness.
(b) As one of them.
(c) As a member of management.
(d) As an arrogant know-it-all.

3. What does Edna think about strikes?
(a) She's not sure.
(b) Strikes can work.
(c) Strikes are too risky.
(d) Strikes do not work.

4. What is being developed in Laboratory A?
(a) A newly designed gas mask.
(b) Poison gas.
(c) The atomic bomb.
(d) A cure for tuberculosis.

5. What does Edna think she is turning into?
(a) A dingbat.
(b) A workaholic.
(c) An overweight wife.
(d) A nag.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe tell Edna he had for lunch when he gets home from work?

2. What does it mean to "take a run-out powder?"

3. Why is a character called a "red?"

4. What do Fatt's men do to the Voice?

5. How does Joe feel about being the man of the house?

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