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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kate describes the Murphy family across the street as belonging to what group in Act I?
(a) The Goyim
(b) The Cossacks
(c) The Nazis
(d) The Israelis

2. What term refers to the method by which the narrator of Brighton Beach Memoirs speaks to the audience?
(a) Dialogue
(b) Direct address
(c) Terminal address
(d) Soliloquy

3. Eugene tells the audience in Act I that he’s committed a mortal sin by doing what?
(a) Committing adultery
(b) Stealing from a priest
(c) Lusting after his mother
(d) Lusting after his cousin

4. When arguing with her mother about leaving school to audition for Broadway in Act I, Nora says, “I’ll be making more money than” how many “girls with diplomas”?
(a) Thirty
(b) Five
(c) Ten
(d) Twenty

5. Who complains of a splitting headache as Eugene plays imaginary baseball in the beginning of Act I?
(a) Nora Morton
(b) Blanche Morton
(c) Kate Jerome
(d) Laurie Morton

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Nora that she can’t sing or carry a tune in Act I?

2. What does Nora say will be on the stage in the Broadway musical she wants to be in, in Act I?

3. How many hours a day does Nora say she spends on a subway in Act I?

4. What actress played the role of Blanche in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

5. What is Blanche Morton doing when the curtain rises for Act I?

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