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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alice wonder if a visitor has arrived?
(a) Her mother is at the door.
(b) The doorbell sounds.
(c) The dog starts to bark.
(d) There is a knock on the door.

2. Why does Alice tell Tony she cannot marry him?
(a) Her family does not approve of him.
(b) She is already married.
(c) He can never understand her family.
(d) She no longer loves him.

3. What is the purpose of the cluttered and chaotic living room of Grandpa Vanderhof?
(a) It is where the play opens.
(b) The characters discuss this location in the first scene.
(c) The characters are headed here in the first scene.
(d) It is the setting for part of the first scene.

4. On what does Penny comment?
(a) Alice's makeup.
(b) The new dress Alice is wearing.
(c) Alice's huge smile.
(d) Alice's new shoes.

5. What does Tony's comment about family dynamics foreshadow?
(a) His loving, yet odd family.
(b) The easiness in which his family operates.
(c) His harsh and difficult family.
(d) His lack of a family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Alice declare?

2. What is happening at the same time Alice and Tony are making declarations to one another?

3. What scares Mr. Henderson out of the apartment without another word?

4. From where does Penny's daughter arrive?

5. How is Alice compared to the rest of her family?

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