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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laudisi say to the others is useless in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Their anger.
(b) Their curiosity.
(c) Their ambilalence.
(d) Their hostility.

2. What does Signora Frola say that she and her friends arranged?
(a) Her daughter's divorce.
(b) The pretense of a second wedding.
(c) Her daughter's humiliation.
(d) Her daughter's death.

3. Whose name does Laudisi forget several times in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Signora Cini.
(b) Signora Ponza.
(c) Agazzi.
(d) Signora Agazzi.

4. Who arrives in Act 1, Scene 5 after Signora Frola exits?
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Ponza.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Signora Ponza.

5. Who says, "Excuse me, Signora, for wondering how it is... with your daughter here... after such a blow... that... it seems to me that survivors would need to stand together . . . ?"
(a) Signora Agazzi.
(b) Signora Laudisi.
(c) Signora Sirelli.
(d) Signora Frola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dina compare Ponza's eyes to in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Who appears at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?

3. What is Ponza's apartment overlooking?

4. Who is Amalia married to?

5. Who has seen Ponza's wife in the village in Act 1, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Laudisi say must be justified in the complaint the women have in Act 1, Scene 1? What is their response?

2. What does Laudisi suggest about the mother-in-law and Ponza in Act 1, Scene 1? How do the women respond?

3. What does Laudisi say the townspeople are presented with in Act 2, Scene 1? How does Agazzi respond?

4. How does Laudisi greet Centuri in Act 3? What does Centuri present to him?

5. What does Ponza overhear his mother-in-law say in the other room which upsets him in Act 2, Scene 7?

6. How does Signora Frola respond to Sirelli's comment that it is Ponza who bars her from seeing her daughter in Act 1, Scene 4?

7. What are some of the sacrifices Ponza speaks of having endured because of the situation in Act 1, Scene 5?

8. What does Dina liken the situation to in Act 1, Scene 1? How does Laudisi respond?

9. What is Ponza's story of the situation in Act 1, Scene 5? What does Signora Frola believe in his story?

10. How does Signora Frola say she communicates with her daughter? How do they feel about this arrangement?

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