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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After listing his top baseball teams he’d like to play for one day, Eugene says that if it gets down to what team then he’d consider just being a writer?
(a) The Boston Red Sox
(b) The Atlanta Braves
(c) The St. Louis Browns
(d) The Dallas Cowboys

2. What did Blanche’s husband die from?
(a) Cancer
(b) A heart attack
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) A stroke

3. The Jerome house is described in the stage directions for Act I as being in “a lower middle income area inhabited mostly by” what groups?
(a) Irish, Italians, and French
(b) Jews, Irish and Germans
(c) Jews, Irish, and Italians
(d) French, Germans, and Polish

4. Blanche says before exiting upstairs in Act II, “For people like us, sometimes the only thing we really own is our” what?
(a) Dignity
(b) Sympathy
(c) Tolerance
(d) Privacy

5. What flavor ice cream does Jack tell Eugene to get for his mother in Act II?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Cherry
(c) Vanilla
(d) Butter pecan

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack do for nine hours a day for his primary job?

2. In what area of the stage is the entrance to the Jerome house in the stage directions for Act I?

3. Laurie first says that her mother looks like what movie star when she descends the stairs for her date in Act II?

4. Eugene tells the audience in Act I, “If my mother knew I was writing all this down, she would” do what?

5. Due to Jack’s health, Jack and Kate are unable to go to an affair to see who with his orchestra in Act II?

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