View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Jones not understand about the Kaplans?
(a) How they can read the newspaper in Hebrew.
(b) How they can sit and read all day long.
(c) Why they are Jewish.
(d) Why they do not go to a church.

2. What do the women gossip about, regarding Mrs. Maurrant?
(a) A man named Sankey has visited her for the third time this week.
(b) Her husband is unkind to her, and she should divorce him.
(c) She is new to the neighborhood, so they discuss what they know of her.
(d) She is rude and disrespectful towards the other tenants.

3. When is Mr. Buchanan's wife due?
(a) Any day.
(b) Two months.
(c) Last week.
(d) Ten days.

4. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?
(a) How it is her responsibility to know where her daughter is, that Rose should not be out so late.
(b) It is her responsibitilty to make sure the children have all of their homework done.
(c) How it is her job to make sure his dinner is ready when he comes home.
(d) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.

5. Why does Willie ask his mother for a dime?
(a) For an icee.
(b) For an ice cream cone.
(c) For a candybar.
(d) For a piece of gum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the group begin to break up?

2. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?

3. What does a sign on the set say about Prof. Filippo Fiorentino?

4. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?

5. What does Sam do at Rose's request?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 328 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample