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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 14 (through page 405).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When might Oscar's conflict with Father, since he saw the movie, blow over?
(a) Once Father realizes the movie is based on Oscar's play.
(b) Once Oscar's play is on Broadway.
(c) Once Oscar loses the lawsuit, proving the play is not worth stealing.
(d) Once Father realizes how good the movie was.
2. What does Christina say should have been an early sign Oscar would never please Father?
(a) When he gets in trouble with Father for stripping the bark from a birch tree to build a canoe.
(b) When is first ran away from home as a child.
(c) When Father said Christina was his favorite child.
(d) When he gets in trouble with Father for not keeping his room clean.
3. A copy of District Judge Crease's Instructions to the Jury in the case of Fickert v. Ude arrives in the mail. What are jurors told to do?
(a) Use their emotions to decide what is right.
(b) Look for editing mistakes.
(c) Sift through evidence and conflicting testimony for facts.
(d) Compare the case to their own lives.
4. What does Lily tell Oscar have been dashed?
(a) Her hopes of marrying him.
(b) Her new job opportunities.
(c) Her chance of going back to school.
(d) Her hopes of reconciling with her Daddy and receiving money.
5. What calls Oscar's play's first act superfluous, the last act untargeted, and the whole play void of purpose?
(a) The rejection letter.
(b) The newspapers.
(c) The television broadcasts.
(d) Broadway producers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Christina do when she finds Oscar engrossed in a nature program?
2. Basie doubts Oscar has a case, but leaves doing what?
3. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?
4. Lily is distraught over Billie's death and what else?
5. Who is the "Murderer" being burnt in effigy?
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