Fences - Act One

Fences begins in the year

• 1937

• 1947

• 1957

• 1967

Racial conflict is most evident in

• Lyons' pursuit of a music career.

• Cory's desire to play football.

• Troy's not being able to be a garbage truck driver.

• Troy's inability to buy furniture on credit.

Which character serves as a dramatic foil for Troy?

• Lyons

• Cory

• Gabe

• Bono

The biggest threat to Rose and Troy's marriage appears to be

• Troy's secret relationship with Alberta.

• Gabe's having moved out of their house.

• Cory's future with college or the workforce.

• shopping at the A&P or Bellas.

Name the speaker: "That ain't for me. I don't wanna be carrying nobody's rubbish. I don't wanna be punching nobody's time clock."

• Cory

• Troy

• Lyons

• Gabe

Troy is skeptical about Cory's recruitment to play college football because

• he does not believe Cory has the academic skills to earn a college degree.

• he doesn't think Cory's athletic skills are good enough to play at a higher level.

• he doesn't want football to stand in the way of Cory's dream to become a mechanic.

• he doesn't believe a black man can make a fair living in pro sports.

Rose tells Troy he didn't make the major leagues because _________.

• he was too old.

• systemic racism.

• his drinking held him back.

• he wasn't good enough for professional baseball.

Troy bought his house by

• saving money from his garbage collection job week by week.

• winning a lottery jackpot.

• using Gabe's disability money.

• agreeing to pay a creditor ten dollars each month.

For Rose, the fence represents:

• broken dreams.

• opportunity.

• family protection and togetherness.

• an unfinished goal.

The fact that Troy is promoted to garbage truck driver without having a driver's license is an example of

• dramatic irony.

• situational irony.

• verbal irony.

• satire.