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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who leads the rants about the current demise of society, the higher divorce rate, premarital sex, smoking, birth control, and hippies?
(a) Mr. Maurrant.
(b) Mr. Jones.
(c) Mr. Kaplan.
(d) Mrs. Jones.

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

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

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

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

7. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?
(a) Their wild children.
(b) The lack of work.
(c) The extreme heat.
(d) Their poverty.

8. What do the neighbors do when Ms. Simpson argues with Mrs. Hildebrand?
(a) They go to their respective homes.
(b) They agree with Ms. Simpson.
(c) They stand up for Mrs. Hildebrand.
(d) They sit quietly and watch.

9. What is a constant throughout the play?
(a) Noise: the noise of the city.
(b) A subway car going by under ground.
(c) Bird calls.
(d) The sound of the wind.

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

11. Upon what do the other women agree?
(a) They want to move out of New York City.
(b) They love this neighborhood.
(c) Their families are annoying.
(d) Their older girls are never home.

12. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.
(b) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.
(c) The first floor windows and the bottom of the second story. To the left there is a partial view of the attached building, a storage warehouse under heavy construction. The house to the right is being demolished.
(d) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.

13. Where does this play begin?
(a) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.
(b) It is a typical suburban home in New Jersey with children playing in the front yard and a swingset in the back.
(c) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(d) There is a large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Easter make Rose uncomfortable?

2. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?

3. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?

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

5. How does Vincent Jones treat Rose?

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