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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts Emily as she is doing her homework during the second scene?
(a) The church choir.
(b) A car horn honking.
(c) A train whistle.
(d) The school bell.

2. What are the actors doing in lieu of having real props?
(a) Using whatever is laying about.
(b) Talking about what they are doing.
(c) Miming their actions.
(d) Making their props as they go.

3. What does Dr. Gibbs put on Emily's grave?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A picture.
(d) Her wedding dress.

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

5. What does the stage manager say the dead are doing?
(a) Repenting.
(b) Waiting.
(c) Watching.
(d) Guiding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does George tell Emily is so hard for a fella' as he talks to her after the student council elections?

2. What does the stage manager tell Emily and George to show the audience at the beginning of the fifth scene?

3. What does Mr. Webb do for the person he sees on his way home from work on the first day of the play?

4. What does Mrs. Gibbs invite her husband to do after his gentle rebuke to her in the yard?

5. What does the stage manager say IS eternal?

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