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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?
(a) The room is bright enough without it.
(b) It was increasing the temperature in their apartment.
(c) He is wasting electricity.
(d) The light is bothering her.

2. Who does Alice Simpson represent?
(a) A bank.
(b) Child and family services.
(c) The government.
(d) A charity.

3. What is Rose doing as her father gets back from the bar?
(a) Sitting on the stoop crying.
(b) Searching through her purse for her keys.
(c) Looking out the window.
(d) Walking into the apartment.

4. For whom is the ice cream that Agnes Cushing buys?
(a) Her elderly mother whom she takes care of.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her son.
(d) The women on the stoop.

5. What does Rose's father ask about Mr. Easter?
(a) If he has enough money to support Rose.
(b) If he is interested in seeing Rose.
(c) If he is having problems with Rose at work.
(d) If there was something more, perhaps a physical relationship between her and her boss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the neighbors do when Ms. Simpson argues with Mrs. Hildebrand?

2. How does Vincent Jones treat Rose?

3. What has the country's heat wave caused?

4. Why does the group begin to break up?

5. What do the women do, after Mr. Sankey's arrival?

(see the answer key)

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