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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gerardo's wife ask him?
(a) If he remembers about the party that night.
(b) What he has in his briefcase.
(c) Who drove him home.
(d) Why he is coming home today and not tomorrow.

2. What does Paulina talk about in the opening of this scene?
(a) The horrors she suffered at the hands of Dr. Miranda.
(b) Her inability to get a job after her time with Dr. Miranda.
(c) How she wants to move to the United States and get away from her past.
(d) How she wants to forgive Dr. Miranda but cannot.

3. How does Gerardo act when Paulina is explaining about the car jack?
(a) He can't hear her.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He slaps her.
(d) He is sputtering.

4. What does Gerardo offer Roberto?
(a) Fifty thousand dollars to leave the country.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A cognac.
(d) A job.

5. What is heard from Roberto's room?
(a) A muffled cry.
(b) Silence.
(c) A gunshot.
(d) A scream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paulina call Roberto?

2. What does Paulina say there is none of in the house?

3. What could the fact that Paulina uses her panties to gag Roberto instead of something else symbolize?

4. What could the lighting on the stage in this act mean?

5. Where is Paulina's mother going?

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