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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oscar wonder about the movie's advertisement?
(a) If the producer is worried the movie will be a flop.
(b) If "based on a true story" is not an admission of guilt.
(c) How much the advertisements cost.
(d) If the scenes that resemble his play will be cut from the advertisments.

2. When Bagby leaves, Thomas and Kane discuss what?
(a) What to do about Bagby.
(b) How horrible a person Bagby is.
(c) How the plantation is running.
(d) The mutual enmity evident at Quantness.

3. Basie remarks on the house's value. How does Oscar reply?
(a) The home has been in his family for generations.
(b) The house is really not worth much.
(c) Privacy is valuable in an era of tract homes.
(d) The house is very old and large.

4. Why is Christina upset with reporters?
(a) They are ruining the grass in the front yard.
(b) They are hunting for signs of heavy drinking and smoking, sacrilege and family insanity.
(c) She is tired of answering questions and posing for pictures.
(d) She is afraid they will break into the house.

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

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

7. Using only the newspapers of the day, what is Oscar showing?
(a) The blossoming of greed and corruption that will create modern America.
(b) The movie is an exact making of his play.
(c) His play is worthy of being made into a film.
(d) His father will never care about him, unless he becomes famous with his play.

8. Why does Mother resent Thomas' marriage to Giulielma?
(a) He married her to escape his family.
(b) He married her for her money.
(c) He married her out of spite.
(d) He married her to control the plantation.

9. What has happened to Oscar?
(a) He needed a root canal.
(b) His meeting is running late.
(c) He has been run over by a car.
(d) He had to work late at work.

10. In Scene 2 of the play,Thomas approaches a limping Soldier wearing a worn Union uniform. Called back to active duty, the Soldier seeks to sell four months' worth of future pay for what?
(a) A drink of water.
(b) A train ticket to see his family.
(c) A week's worth of food.
(d) Three months' worth of cash for his family.

11. Today's newspaper implicates what about the producer, Kiester?
(a) The Civil War film is his first.
(b) He adopted deceptive practices in making his previous blockbuster, Uburubu.
(c) He is an award-winning producer.
(d) He had used Oscar's script to create his movie.

12. Oscar agrees the title evokes the death scene at the end of what Shakespeare play?
(a) Othello.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Twelfth Night.

13. When Christina announces someone is taking pictures on the lawn, what does Oscar demand?
(a) The cameras of the photographers.
(b) They go out and enjoy the free photography.
(c) She call the police.
(d) She drive them away.

14. What does Oscar state about his teaching career?
(a) He has taught American History at Lotusville Community College for 12 years, more as a hobby than as an occupation.
(b) He has taught European History at Lawrence North High School.
(c) He has taught European History at Lotusvill Community College.
(d) He has taught American History at Lawrence North High School.

15. Of what does Thomas accuse his mother?
(a) Being too harsh on John Israel.
(b) Cherishing injustice and refusing to relinquish the past.
(c) Not being kind enough to all the slaves.
(d) Cherishing justice and easily relinquishing the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kiester counters the complaint, denying what?

2. Oscar maintains "when the idea is used in the context of the expression, combined with the expression, then the idea becomes part of the abuse I'm referring to," but denies what?

3. Basie says a newspaper report has raised hopes in Oscar's case, provided what?

4. According to Harry, why does Judge Crease give reporters the headline, "EVERY DOG ENTITLED TO ONE BITE, SAYS JUDGE?"

5. The insurance company, once willing to settle for $500 plus hospital bills, now wants what?

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