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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) 4
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) 2

2. How long ago did Blanche’s husband die in Act I?
(a) 10 years ago
(b) 4 years ago
(c) 6 years ago
(d) 3 years ago

3. What year is described as the setting in the stage directions for Act I?
(a) 1941
(b) 1937
(c) 1939
(d) 1938

4. What month is it in the opening of Act I?
(a) October
(b) August
(c) September
(d) June

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

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

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

8. When did the original production of Brighton Beach Memoirs premiere on Broadway?
(a) September 12, 1984
(b) March 27, 1983
(c) March 13, 1985
(d) June 16, 1982

9. Eugene’s brother Stanley is almost how old in Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) 17
(b) 16
(c) 21
(d) 19

10. Who played the role of Kate in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?
(a) Jessica Hecht
(b) Gracie Bea Lawrence
(c) Elizabeth Franz
(d) Jodi Thelon

11. 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

12. 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 Dallas Cowboys
(c) The St. Louis Browns
(d) The Atlanta Braves

13. What batter walks in Eugene’s imaginary baseball game in the opening of Act I?
(a) Dickey
(b) Ruffing
(c) JoJo Moore
(d) Mel Ott

14. What kind of bread does Eugene’s mother tell him to get at the store in Act I?
(a) White bread
(b) Wheat bread
(c) French bread
(d) Rye bread

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kate’s response when Blanche tells her in Act I, “I’m going to pay you and Jack back someday. I don’t know when, but I keep my word”?

2. How is the Jerome house described in the stage directions for Act I?

3. What actress played the role of Nora in the original cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs?

4. What does Laurie ask for a glass of prior to dinner in Act I?

5. 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?

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