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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Widows and Children First: Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Murray look like?
(a) He is not onstage, so the audience does not know.
(b) He is buffed and quite handsome.
(c) He is medium height, balding and wears glasses.
(d) He is short with a bit of a paunch around the middle.

2. What does Laurel plan to accomplish over the weekend?
(a) She had no particular plans.
(b) To become pregnant by Arnold since Ed is sterile.
(c) To learn how to serve a ball in tennis as well as Arnold can.
(d) To ascertain if there was still a spark between Arnold and Ed.

3. What conversational technique is continued in this scene?
(a) A round-robin technique.
(b) Indirect quoting.
(c) Just thoughts in each character's mind.
(d) Fugue style overlap.

4. What is the subject of Ed's reading?
(a) About the French revolution.
(b) Nothing; he is not reading.
(c) How this new cologne is based on female pheromones.
(d) A love affair between an 80-year-old woman and a boy of fifteen.

5. Why is Arnold angry with Ed?
(a) He is not sympathetic about Alan's death.
(b) He lied to the social worker.
(c) He does not want to have a sexual relationship with Arnold.
(d) He left Arnold to face Arnold's mother alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as having boyish charms?

2. What gets in the way of Laurel's plans for the weekend?

3. Who sings from another part of the stage?

4. What is Laurel's news?

5. How much time has passed since the last scene?

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