American Dream

Edward Albee

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What color hat does Mommy want?

What is Grandma's pseudonym in the baking contest?

Which of the following is blind?

What does Daddy aspire toward become these days?

What does Mrs. Barker not do while in Mommy's apartment?

Where does Mommy think Grandma get the word "hedgehog"?

When did Mommy and Daddy last see Mrs. Barker?

Which of the following body parts does the "bumble of joy" not lose?

How does Daddy try to prove his masculinity?

What distinguishes Mrs. Barker's husband?

How old is Grandma?

Which organization does Mrs. Barker not volunteer for?

Who does Mrs. Barker consider the country's chief proponent of Woman Love?

Whose mother died at their birth?

What object is Mrs. Barker in the habit of receiving in "the literary sense"?

How many glasses does the Young Man bring from the kitchen?

Why is it impossible that the van man took Grandma away?

According to Grandma, what is missing from Mommy's imitation of her speech?

Where is Grandma when Mommy and Daddy hear her whimpering?

According to Grandma, why did Mommy bring her into the apartment?

What did Grandma dream of becoming?

Who hoots like an owl in the course of the play?

Who steps on Grandma's boxes?

What play earned Edward Albee a Tony award?

The original production of The Zoo Story, Albee's breakthrough work, shared a bill with what play?

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