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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pai say separates Oscar from Shakespeare?
(a) Many centuries.
(b) Shakespeare wrote in a time when there were no copyright laws.
(c) Talent.
(d) The average person, too, has access to such materials; and the way he and Shakespeare execute the ideas is what separates them.

2. Courage, Kane states, is what?
(a) Only found in those who have suffered the effects of war.
(b) A foolish waste of time.
(c) A brave way to live.
(d) The wisdom to stand trial when we do not suspect it.

3. How do Harry and Christina find Oscar trapped?
(a) Outside the house without his keys.
(b) In his new wheelchair and complaining about his new maid.
(c) In his bedroom screaming for help.
(d) In his car with the doors locked.

4. After a lunch break accommodating Oscar's nap, Pai apologizes to Oscar for what?
(a) Not formally introducing himself.
(b) Yelling at him.
(c) Asking him so many questions.
(d) Any appearance of disrespect.

5. The insurance company, once willing to settle for $500 plus hospital bills, now wants what?
(a) To settle for more than $500.
(b) Oscar's claims dismissed on the basis of No Fault.
(c) Oscar's claims to be reconsidered.
(d) To settle for only $250.

6. How many causes of action does the plaintiff claim he has sustained?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

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

8. Since when has Oscar been feeling terminal?
(a) Ever since that morning.
(b) Ever since a man in black came offering him money to carry messages to the other side.
(c) Ever since his physical therapy began.
(d) Ever since his accident.

9. 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) Reading the script for the movie.
(b) After talking to the director about his film.
(c) When he sees the movie.
(d) The Times' review of the movie.

10. In more responsive hands, observes the Times, the characters of the movie might have reflected what?
(a) The seriousness of war.
(b) The relationships between people.
(c) The characters of Oscar's play.
(d) The deeper opposing dualities of man's nature.

11. Kiester counters the complaint, denying what?
(a) All allegations.
(b) He made a Civil War movie.
(c) He has ever seen the play.
(d) He realized the movie was based on Oscar's play.

12. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?
(a) To see his wife.
(b) To plant cotton.
(c) To pay the bills.
(d) To deal with his two slaves.

13. Why can Lily not marry Oscar yet?
(a) She is out of the country.
(b) He has not proposed.
(c) She is too young.
(d) She is waiting for a messy divorce to go through.

14. When does the Soldier take Thomas' $20?
(a) When Thomas falls asleep.
(b) When Thomas forces him to take it.
(c) When Thomas is not looking.
(d) When Thomas makes clear it is a free gift.

15. How does Trish receive diamonds?
(a) Her boyfriend gives them to her as an apology.
(b) She has purchased them with the money received from her law suit.
(c) She has borrowed them for the weekend.
(d) The clever insurance people had bought them back from the thieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christina and Harry go to Room 612B and find Oscar upset. Over what is he upset?

2. When does Jonathan Livingston change his name to Constantine Kiester?

3. Basie doubts Oscar has a case, but leaves doing what?

4. Oscar agrees the title evokes the death scene at the end of what Shakespeare play?

5. William longs to fight in the war, which Thomas says what?

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