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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "You don't mean to say you understand it if a mother--unable to bear being away from the daughter--follows her and then is compelled to live apart from her in a city where after all she's a stranger too?"
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Laudisi.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Dina.

2. Who says to Signora Frola, "To tell you the truth, Signora, I did take it rather ill . . . ?"
(a) Ponza.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Sirelli.

3. Who says, "I thought she was trying to protect her son-in-law from suspicion. That seemed to be the whole aim of her visit?"
(a) Sirelli.
(b) Laudisi.
(c) Ponza.
(d) Agazzi.

4. What does Ponza say of his mother-in-law in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) She is lovely.
(b) She is hateful.
(c) She is mad.
(d) She is evil.

5. Who says, "As a daughter, I don't claim my mother would climb ninety or a hundred stairs for me, but I wouldn't be satisfied with seeing her, without feeling her near me?"
(a) Signora Frola.
(b) Amalia.
(c) Dina.
(d) Signora Ponza.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose house does Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2 take place?

2. Who arrives at the door after Ponza leaves in Act 1, Scene 6?

3. What does Signora Frola say that she and her friends arranged?

4. Who arrives unexpectedly in Act 1, Scene 4?

5. What goes up and down between Signora Frola and her daughter by ropes?

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