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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bone do with the play besides summarizing the plot of the play and observing classical sources have been used?
(a) He makes fun of Oscar.
(b) Analyzing the first two acts scene-by-scene.
(c) He vaguely describes the main characters.
(d) He only discusses the parts that are similar to the movie.

2. Why is Oscar upset by this news?
(a) He will be highly taxed on this reward.
(b) He will not receive enough to cover his legal bills and no longer has Harry's advice.
(c) He will cover his bills but will not make a profit.
(d) He will only be able to cover his legal bills.

3. What does Christina say when Oscar says he needs a secretary?
(a) She hires Ilse as his secretary.
(b) She calls Lily to see if she could help Oscar.
(c) She sends her personal secretary to help Oscar.
(d) She dismisses his plans to hire a secretary, suggesting he needs only a wastebasket and a housekeeper.

4. What does Lily realize when Oscar yells for them to all come and see what is on the television?
(a) Oscar is watching another nature program.
(b) Oscar does not know his father has died.
(c) Oscar had forgotten Father had died.
(d) Oscar is watching the movie.

5. Why does Oscar fail to notice Lily's new hairdo?
(a) He is engrossed in a cartoon.
(b) She is standing behind him.
(c) Her hairdo is not very different.
(d) He is asleep.

6. What does Jerry think will happen by having Bagby hungering for intelligent talk in an intellectual wasteland?
(a) It will destroy the character.
(b) It will make the audience hate the character even more.
(c) It will be too deep for the audience.
(d) It will improve the character.

7. What has happened every time Christina has tried to reach Harry?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He has refused to talk to her.
(c) He cries on the phone.
(d) He has been unavailable.

8. Why is Lily spooked by the clerk's many trips to the bathroom and the sound of trickling?
(a) It reminds her of her lump.
(b) It makes her need to use the restroom.
(c) She is disgusted.
(d) He does not close the door.

9. Why does Rev. Bobby Joe, freed from jail, say Daddy cannot come to visit?
(a) He is having a big operation and Bobby Joe is offering him spiritual comfort in case the Lord carries him home during it.
(b) He has a baptism to attend to.
(c) He no longer trusts Daddy.
(d) He is busy preaching.

10. While the plaintiff's play script is indisputably protected, what would not constitute copyright infringement?
(a) The use of general themes, motives and ideas by the defendants.
(b) Copying the dialogue from the play for the movie.
(c) Saying the movie is based on Oscar's play.
(d) Using the same characters' names.

11. Where does Oscar tell Christina that Ilse is?
(a) In Manhattan working as a maid.
(b) In the Bronx attending to her blind sister.
(c) In Queens attending a workshop.
(d) In Brooklyn working as a teacher.

12. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?
(a) His wildfires in California.
(b) A drop in interest rates.
(c) His case being dismissed.
(d) The injuries, arrests, and a nationwide outpouring of grief for Spot.

13. What is the final amount of the film apportioned to Oscar?
(a) 2.5% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(b) 25% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(c) 250% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(d) .25% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.

14. How does Jerry want to change the character of Kane, which would also put Broadway audiences in Oscar's hands?
(a) He should be a rootless, wandering Jew.
(b) He should be very attractive.
(c) He should be very funny and entertaining.
(d) He should have a better name.

15. What do witnesses confirm about the site of the drowning?
(a) It is frequently used for baptisms.
(b) The current is very strong.
(c) It is beautiful.
(d) It is a popular fishing site.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oscar say when Christina tells him there will be no funeral?

2. What will Father believe Oscar has done to Grandfather?

3. What does Kiester do regarding Oscar's script when undertaking a Civil War epic?

4. 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?

5. Why is Deedee out $80,000?

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