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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Maurrant do after she motions Mr. Sankey over to the window?
(a) She tells him to go home to his wife.
(b) Invites him upstairs.
(c) She runs back into her apartment.
(d) She gives him a kiss.

3. What happens when Mr. Sankey arrives?
(a) Everyone encourages him to join in.
(b) Everyone stops what they are doing.
(c) They continue as if he is not there.
(d) They ask where he is going.

4. What is Sam's reply when Rose asks what happened?
(a) He simply tells her that there was an accident and she should go away.
(b) He tells her that her mother was shot.
(c) He tells her that he does not know what happened.
(d) He simply tells her that her mother is dead.

5. What does Fred tell the crowd?
(a) The shots were a false alarm.
(b) Two men are dead in this apartment.
(c) A man has shot his wife and another man.
(d) Mrs. Maurrant and another woman are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what do they argue?

2. What does the policeman do when he arrives?

3. What does Mrs. Maurrant have in a paper bag?

4. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?

5. What are the rest of the characters doing at the beginning of this scene?

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