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

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) Cats
(b) Les Miserables
(c) Hello Dolly!
(d) Abracadabra

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

3. How is the Jerome house described in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) A wooden frame house
(b) A former boarding house
(c) A three-story brownstone
(d) A brick multi-level house

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. What is Kate carrying in Act I when she walks out of the kitchen and says to Eugene, “On my kitchen floor? Do you want me dead, is that what you want”?
(a) A skateboard
(b) A train set
(c) A roller skate
(d) A jump rope

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sneakers is Eugene described as wearing when his character is introduced in Act I?

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

3. What was Blanche’s husband’s name?

4. Kate tells Eugene to run across the street to what store to buy bread in Act I?

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

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