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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the audience able to see of this building?
(a) 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.
(b) A typical looking suburban home with toys lying around in the front yard.
(c) The first five floors of the highrise aparment, a sign for valet parking, and a large awning over the entrance.
(d) The front of this old Victorian home, lined with bushes and flowerbeds.

2. How does Rose feel about Mr. Easter?
(a) Deep down she likes him but knows he is married.
(b) He is creepy and unreliable.
(c) She does not feel right about what he is asking of her.
(d) He is a kind man who can give her what she needs.

3. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?
(a) The family unit.
(b) Public housing.
(c) Paying rent.
(d) Slums.

4. What do the women wonder about Mr. Maurrant?
(a) If he really loves his wife and children.
(b) Why he is so grumpy all the time.
(c) If he is suspicious of his wife's relationship with the milkman.
(d) If he enjoys his job.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. Why does Mr. Buchanan rush out of the building?
(a) He is chasing after his wife.
(b) His wife is in labor.
(c) He forgot to buy groceries.
(d) The building is on fire.

11. What is the lighting on the stage?
(a) The lights in the home are on.
(b) Streetlights run along stage left and stage right.
(c) There is a bright light, reperesenting the sun.
(d) The janitor's apartment windows are lit, as are those in the first floor. There is a red light coming from the demolition site.

12. What happens between Vincent and Sam?
(a) They have a heated debate.
(b) They get into an argument.
(c) They get into a physical altercation.
(d) They glare at one another.

13. What does a sign on the set say about Prof. Filippo Fiorentino?
(a) He is a law professor at Yale.
(b) He is a biology professor at Princeton.
(c) He is a musician and teaches lessons.
(d) He is a music professor at NYU.

14. Where does this play begin?
(a) There is a walk up tenement style apartment located in a dodgy, dilapidated part of New York City, built in the 1890s.
(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 large Victorian-style home with a wrap around porch and grassy fields in the background.
(d) In a highrise apartment on the Upper Eastside of New York City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?

2. Who tries to help Rose by yelling at Vincent?

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

4. Over what do they argue?

5. What is Rose doing as her father gets back from the bar?

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