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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What opinion does Mrs. Maurrant try to quietly assert?
(a) Everyone should try to make the best of their lives.
(b) Everyone should research the best options for improving the economy, rather than arguing over what they do not understand.
(c) Everyone should be able to live in peace and accept each other's differences.
(d) Everyone should find a job and quit complaining.

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

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

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

6. What do the women wonder about Sam Kaplan?
(a) Why he is not married.
(b) If he is available.
(c) Why he seems to like Rose.
(d) What is wrong with the young man.

7. What is Sam doing when he and Rose are left alone?
(a) He is sitting silently on the curb.
(b) He sits on the stoop sobbing and calls himself a coward.
(c) He is pacing the sidewalk.
(d) He is hugging Rose.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What is Greta Fiorentino wearing?
(a) A flowered housecoat.
(b) A summer dress.
(c) A bathing suit.
(d) A fur coat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between Vincent and Sam?

2. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?

3. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?

4. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?

5. About what do Emma, Greta, and Olga speak?

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