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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Buchanan seem?
(a) Scared.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.

2. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?
(a) Kissing on a bench.
(b) Dancing around, inebriated.
(c) Sitting on the curb.
(d) Sitting on the stoop.

3. Over what do they argue?
(a) Where foreigners should live.
(b) The history of the United States.
(c) The person who discovered America, Leif Erickson or Christopher Columbus.
(d) Who is considered a foreigner.

4. How does the scene end?
(a) With Sam sitting alone with his head in his hands.
(b) Sam is sitting on the steps, smiling.
(c) Rose is sitting alone with her head in her hands.
(d) Both Sam and Rose go into their respective apartments.

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

6. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?
(a) He liked the type of music; it just was not played well.
(b) He did not like the type of music that was played.
(c) He enjoyed the music.
(d) It was the best one he had ever been to.

7. How do the ladies brush off Mr. Maurrant' mood?
(a) He has a stressful job.
(b) That is just the way he is.
(c) All men just want to get their way.
(d) Mrs. Maurrant does not do her job.

8. What does Mr. Maurrant tell the group he is going to do to his kids?
(a) Punish them.
(b) Throw them out.
(c) Treat them to a movie.
(d) Give them up for adoption.

9. Why does the group begin to break up?
(a) They are leaving to go to bed.
(b) They are tired of arguing.
(c) It is becoming too hot.
(d) They must go to work.

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

11. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?
(a) She yells at the neighbors on the stoop.
(b) She glares at all of the tenants.
(c) She makes Mrs. Hildebrand assign an agreement.
(d) She makes an offensive comment about Jews to Kaplan.

12. What does Emma Jones call Greta?
(a) Mrs. F.
(b) Mrs. G.
(c) Greta.
(d) Miss Greta.

13. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?
(a) Kaplan believes it is the capitalist structure of the country that is harmful.
(b) Mr. Kaplan believes capitalism is going to be build up the economy.
(c) They are discussing The Crash and how it has hurt the economy.
(d) They are complaining about their homes and lack of work.

14. Who tries to help Rose by yelling at Vincent?
(a) Mr. Jones.
(b) Mr. Maurrant.
(c) Mr. Buchanan.
(d) Sam Kaplan.

15. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?
(a) A violin case and sheet music.
(b) Sheet music and a fiddle.
(c) Ice cream cones and a newspaper.
(d) His violin and five ice cream cones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?

2. Upon what do the other women agree?

3. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

4. What does Mrs. Jones not understand about the Kaplans?

5. What does Mr. Maurrant do when Willie appears, crying?

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