Act 1, Scene 4

Question 1

Walk up to stage

Answer 1

Thank You.

Question 2

Tony: You’re on your own now. Just be careful, that’s all Ground floor.

Answer 2

Thank you.

Question 3

Rodolpho: This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!

Answer 3

Ssh! Come

Question 4

Eddie: You Marco?

Answer 4

Marco.

Question 5

Marco crosses to Beatrice

Answer 5

Are you my cousin?

Question 6

Beatrice: Beatrice. This is my husband, Eddie. Catherine, my sister Nancy’s daughter.

Answer 6

My brother. Rodolpho.

I want to tell you now Eddie - when you say go, we will go.

Question 7

Eddie: Oh, no…

Answer 7

I see it’s a small house, but soon, maybe, we can have our own house.

Question 8

Catherine: Come here, sit down. I’ll get you some soup.

Answer 8

We ate on the ship. Thank you.

Question 9

Eddie: Yiz have a nice trip?

Answer 9

The ocean is always rough. But we are good sailors.

Question 10

Eddie: No trouble gettin’ here?

Answer 10

No. The man brought us. Very nice man.

Question 11

Eddie: No. But as long as you owe them money, they’ll get you plenty of work. Yiz ever work on the piers in Italy?

Answer 11

Piers? Ts! - no.

Question 12

Beatrice: So what kinda work did yiz do?

Answer 12

Whatever there is, anything.

Question 13

Eddie: Still bad there, heh?

Answer 13

Bad, yes.

Question 14

Eddie: So what’re you wanna do, you gonna stay here or you wanna go back?

Answer 14

Go back?

Question 15

Eddie: Well, you’re married, ain’t you?

Answer 15

Yes. I have three children.

Question 16

Beatrice: Three! I thought only one.

Answer 16

Oh, no. I have three now. Four years, five years, six years.

Question 17

Beatrice: Ah… I bet they’re cryin’ for you already, huh?

Answer 17

What can I do? The older one is sick n his chest. My wife - she feeds them from her own mouth. I tell you the truth, if I stay there they will never grow up. They eat the sunshine.

Question 18

Beatrice: My God. So how long you want to stay?

Answer 18

With your permission, we will stay maybe a few months.

Question 19

Eddie: She don’t mean in this house, she means in the country.

Answer 19

Oh. Maybe four, five, six years, I think.

Question 20

Beatrice: Yeah, but maybe you’ll get enough, you’ll be able to go back quicker.

Answer 20

I hope. I don’t know.

to Eddie: I understand it’s not so good here either.

Question 21

Eddie: On the average a whole year? Maybe - well, it’s hard to say, see. Sometime we lay off, there’s no ships three, four weeks.

Answer 21

Three, four weeks! Ts!