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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emily doing when she asks her mother her very important question?
(a) Sewing a quilt.
(b) Helping her with the beans.
(c) Hanging laundry.
(d) Writing a letter.

2. What does Mrs. Gibbs do when she first enters the stage in the second act?
(a) Feeds her chickens.
(b) Kisses her husband.
(c) Makes breakfast.
(d) Tends her garden.

3. According to the stage manager, what almost always accompanies youth and love?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Craziness.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Trouble.

4. What does Mrs. Gibbs chide George for when he first appears on stage?
(a) Talking back to her.
(b) Forgetting his homework.
(c) Spending his allowance too frivolously.
(d) Sleeping in.

5. What does George realize when he is talking to Emily after the student council elections?
(a) She is scared of him.
(b) She is blushing.
(c) She is staring at him.
(d) She is mad at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the play what does Mrs. Webb do when she first comes out of her house?

2. Where is Joe killed?

3. What does Mrs. Gibbs chide her husband for when he comes home at the beginning of the play?

4. Who tells Mr. Webb what George wants to be when he grown up?

5. How many other people are talking to Howie at the beginning of the second act?

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