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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do the women do, after Mr. Sankey's arrival?
(a) They disparage Mrs. Maurrant's character, one of them calling her a whore.
(b) They go back to their previous activities.
(c) They discuss the quality of the milk he sells.
(d) They wonder why Mr. Sankey is at the apartment.

5. Who does Mrs. Jones say do not know anything about raising babies?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) New Yorkers.
(c) The poor.
(d) Foreigners.

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

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

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

9. What does Rose do when Sam kisses her?
(a) His embrace is timide, while hers is passionate.
(b) They embrace one another passionately.
(c) His embrace is passionate, yet she does not respond.
(d) They are both timid and shy.

10. What has the country's heat wave caused?
(a) Power outages all around the city.
(b) Sales in ice to rise drastically.
(c) Milk all around the country to spoil.
(d) The deaths of six people in Chicago.

11. Where does Mr. Easter tell Rose he will find her a job?
(a) In a bank.
(b) On stage.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In a factory.

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

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

14. How does Mr. Sankey look?
(a) Cheap, dressed in a low quality suit.
(b) Nervous and shy.
(c) Wealthy and expensively dressed.
(d) Dirty and ragged.

15. On what does Mr. Maurrant lecture his wife?
(a) It is her responsibitilty to make sure the children have all of their homework done.
(b) How it is her job to make sure his dinner is ready when he comes home.
(c) How it is her responsibility to know where her daughter is, that Rose should not be out so late.
(d) She should wear more makeup and wear nicer clothes for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Simpson do before leaving?

2. What does Kaplan believe will no longer be necessary once there is no more personal property?

3. What does Mrs. Jones tell the group about marriage?

4. Over what do they argue?

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

(see the answer keys)

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