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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does A ask at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) How many more days until her birthday.
(b) Where C has gone.
(c) Whether it is the day "he" comes.
(d) Where she left her glasses.

2. Why does A begin to cry in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Because of the way C speaks to her.
(b) Because she cannot remember her husband.
(c) Because of the pain in her arm.
(d) Because she can't use the bathroom by herself.

3. Why does A complain about B in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) A complains that B is a terrible cook.
(b) A complains that B is rude to her.
(c) A complains that B talks too much.
(d) A complains that B is hurting her.

4. How does B respond to A's tantrum in Act 1, Part 4?
(a) B ignores A until she stops.
(b) B gives A a sedative.
(c) B helps A get into bed.
(d) B tries to reason with A.

5. A reveals in Act 1, Part 2 that who had an affair?
(a) A's husband.
(b) Sis.
(c) Sis's husband.
(d) A.

6. What does B say about A's friends being dead?
(a) She didn't like most of them anyway.
(b) She's glad because they were a bad influence on A.
(c) A should make more friends so she won't be lonely.
(d) B wonders how A outlived all of them.

7. How does A feel about the fact that most of her friends are dead?
(a) It angers her.
(b) It greatly saddens her.
(c) It doesn't really bother her.
(d) It makes her feel lonely.

8. What does A say to C at the end of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) A tells C that she is too young to understand A's stories.
(b) A tells C to get out of her house.
(c) A tells C not to get fresh.
(d) A tells C that she should live so that she doesn't have any regrets when she is as old as A.

9. Who were the only "colored" people that A knew?
(a) Girls she went to school with.
(b) The "help."
(c) Her neighbors.
(d) Girls she worked with.

10. What do A and B tease C about?
(a) Not having a sense of humor.
(b) Being a snob.
(c) Not paying attention.
(d) Being too uptight.

11. What happened as a result of the doctors' recommended treatment for A's husband's shoulder?
(a) The arms had to be amputated.
(b) The shoulder healed, but he couldn't use his arm much.
(c) He died.
(d) The shoulder healed, and only the scars remained.

12. How does B respond to A's situation at the end of Act 1, Part 4?
(a) She leaves to call the doctor.
(b) She tells C to call the doctor.
(c) She gives A CPR.
(d) She pulls a sheet over A's face.

13. What comment does B make to C, regarding A's bathroom habits?
(a) A should be able to get to the bathroom by herself.
(b) A takes too long in the bathroom, and B can never use it.
(c) A should be using a bedpan at night.
(d) Just when B gets A in her chair, A has to go.

14. A thinks that all of her staff do what?
(a) Steal from her.
(b) Hold private rituals.
(c) Deal drugs.
(d) Make fun of her behind her back.

15. Who told A they would not come to see her if she continued to use words like "wop"?
(a) C.
(b) The housekeeper.
(c) The boy.
(d) B.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes A cry in Act 1, Part 2?

2. What does A's son sometimes bring when he comes to visit?

3. To whom is A referring when she uses the pronoun "he"?

4. How does C respond to A's situation at the end of Act 1, Part 4?

5. Why does A start crying in act 1, part 3?

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