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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lenny is surprised to find:
(a) Meg might not be coming home.
(b) Others might disapprove of Meg.
(c) Chick has remembered her birthday.
(d) Chick has some resentment toward Meg.

2. When Babe begins telling her story, she refuses Meg's offer of candy, which suggests:
(a) She has given up entirely.
(b) She wants to get the story over with as quickly as possible.
(c) She is prepared to tell the truth, and does not need to
(d) She is angry with Meg for dragging the story out of her.

3. Billy Boy was:
(a) Lenny's first love.
(b) Lenny's horse.
(c) Lenny's son.
(d) Lenny's pen pal.

4. Chick implies that Meg is the reason:
(a) Babe has suffered negative publicity.
(b) Doc now walks with a limp.
(c) Lenny is alone on her birthday.
(d) Granddaddy is sick.

5. Barnette plans to win the case by arguing:
(a) Murder in the first degree.
(b) Self-defense or guilty of manslaughter.
(c) Self-defense or not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
(d) Guilty by reason of insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Babe muses about the birthday cake she has ordered for Lenny, Meg:

2. Babe claims she shot Zackery in the stomach because:

3. Lenny begins the play by:

4. Doc has come by to tell Lenny:

5. Meg protests to the idea of Doc's wife because:

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