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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bedrooms are described as being seen by the audience upstairs in the Jerome house in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 3

2. How old is Eugene Jerome in Act I?
(a) Almost 16
(b) Almost 15
(c) Almost 13
(d) Almost 14

3. What baseball team does Eugene dream of playing for in Act I?
(a) The Blue Sox
(b) The Yankees
(c) The Red Sox
(d) The Dodgers

4. What role did actor Peter Michael Goetz play in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Eugene Jerome
(b) Stanley Jerome
(c) Jack Jerome
(d) Frank Murphy

5. What does Eugene’s mother tell him to get at the store as well as bread in Act I?
(a) Salt
(b) Ice cream
(c) Butter
(d) Flour

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who complains of a splitting headache as Eugene plays imaginary baseball in the beginning of Act I?

3. Kate tells her sister in Act I, “Remember what Momma used to tell us. Stay on your own side of the street. That’s what they have” what for?

4. 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?

5. What is Eugene’s response when his mother asks him in Act I, “What would you tell your father if he came home and I was dead on the kitchen floor?”

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