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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Broadway musical Nora says she’s going to be cast in, in Act I?
(a) Abracadabra
(b) Hello Dolly!
(c) Les Miserables
(d) Cats

2. On what day does Nora say she’s going to audition for the Broadway musical in Act I?
(a) Saturday
(b) Friday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Monday

3. How long does Blanche ask to keep the girls at the Jerome house while she looks for work in Act II?
(a) A couple of days
(b) A few weeks
(c) Two months
(d) Another year

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eugene’s brother Stanley is almost how old in Brighton Beach Memoirs?

2. How much money does Stanley say he lost in November and claimed he had a hole in his pocket?

3. What ailment is Laurie Morton said to suffer from in Act I?

4. What does Eugene’s mother tell him to get at the store as well as bread in Act I?

5. What role did actor Peter Michael Goetz play in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

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