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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 (through page 156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Basie try to show Oscar about artists?
(a) They often steal ideas from others.
(b) They should never be trusted.
(c) They can often forget from what they are inspired.
(d) They can innocently use things without outright stealing them.

2. Why is Oscar certain he did not send his script to Kiester?
(a) His name is very laughable.
(b) Kiester is not a well-known producer.
(c) He has never sent his script to anyone.
(d) He has never sent it to a movie producer.

3. What convinces Oscar the producer of "The Blood in the Red White and Blue," Kiester, has stolen the characters and themes of his play?
(a) When he sees the movie.
(b) After talking to the director about his film.
(c) Reading the script for the movie.
(d) The Times' review of the movie.

4. Who is Thomas?
(a) He is the Crease's next door neighbor.
(b) He is the director of the Civil War movie.
(c) He is a figment of Oscar's imagination.
(d) He is the hero and a born aristocrat in his thirties, dressed in a rumbled field uniform, bearing a battle scar that is evident but not disfiguring.

5. How does Mother reply when Thomas asks what she wants?
(a) To move up north.
(b) To move onto a nice plantation.
(c) Only to stay with her son.
(d) Only to lay up treasures in heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas' mother refuse to leave?

2. Why is Christina worried about Szyrk?

3. When Thomas recalls viewing his opponent and himself, how does he see them?

4. What does Lily declare about Oscar's play so far?

5. Today's newspaper implicates what about the producer, Kiester?

(see the answer key)

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