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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of the play, what does Dr. Gibbs say he has been up all night doing?
(a) Helping a woman give birth to twins.
(b) Preparing a man for death.
(c) Attending to the wounds of two returned war veterans.
(d) Drinking at the local bar.

2. What does Mrs. Gibbs ask her husband to talk to George about at the beginning of the play?
(a) Being disrespectful to his mother.
(b) Getting poor grades in school.
(c) Not eating his dinner.
(d) Not doing his share of chores.

3. What does the stage manager say that the third act will be about?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Trials.
(d) Life.

4. Who asks questions of Mr. Webb when he has finished his introduction of the town?
(a) Audience members.
(b) Actors planted in the audience.
(c) The stage manager.
(d) Mr. Webb's children.

5. What does Mr. Webb do for the person he sees on his way home from work on the first day of the play?
(a) Comforts him.
(b) Sends him home.
(c) Stops to listen to him.
(d) Hurries along home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Emily just before she came on stage in the second scene?

2. Where is Joe killed?

3. What personal detail about Simon Stimson do we learn from the stage manager?

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

5. What does Mr. Gibbs tease his wife about when he first appears on stage in the second act?

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