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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15 (through page 430).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Oscar reply when Basie interrupts to ask how Israel fits into his play?
(a) He is proof that others may free themselves from bondage.
(b) He does not; he is only a means of showing how, in those days, an educated black man was suspended between worlds.
(c) He is an essential character and member of the family, even though he is a slave.
(d) His running away is a catalyst for other events.

2. Why does Oscar demand a subpoena of Kiester's records?
(a) To prove the ad campaign is a last-minute attempt to poison the atmosphere over Szyrk.
(b) To waste time.
(c) To prove that the movie is based on his play.
(d) To annoy Kiester.

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

4. Without insurance, what can Lily not do?
(a) See a doctor.
(b) Have her eyes examined.
(c) Buy a new car.
(d) Go to the dentist.

5. What does Jerry explain as the left hand side of Oscar's story?
(a) Kane hounding Thomas about justice and moral rectitude leading him deeper into his dilemma, and Bagby blackmailing him for 4,000 years of Christian guilt.
(b) The runaway slave, the invisible man haunting Thomas (and the entire play).
(c) There is no left hand side of Oscar's story.
(d) Thomas's trip north to take care of his uncle's property.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the official transcript of Oscar's deposition open?

2. How does Christina irritate Oscar, when talking about the scene?

3. What does J. Harret Ruth share with Senator Orney Bilk?

4. Why does Oscar fail to notice Lily's new hairdo?

5. Thomas muses how the trees, rocks and ditches - all so casually ignored in peacetime - are what in battle?

(see the answer key)

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