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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry warns of the risk and cost of contesting what?
(a) No Fault.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Lack of Capacity.

2. Thomas muses how the trees, rocks and ditches - all so casually ignored in peacetime - are what in battle?
(a) Bloody and twisted.
(b) In the way of the soldiers.
(c) Cruel and disfigured.
(d) Crucial to survival.

3. 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) Three months' worth of cash for his family.
(c) A train ticket to see his family.
(d) A week's worth of food.

4. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?
(a) His dying sister.
(b) His uncle's death.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) His ill wife.

5. What does Lily declare about Oscar's play so far?
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is brilliant.
(c) It is spooky.
(d) It is somewhat odd.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Bagby leaves, Thomas and Kane discuss what?

3. What does Oscar state about his teaching career?

4. What does Oscar fear about his house?

5. The phone rings, and Trish leaves a rambling, disjointed message. What does she fear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Pai and Oscar do after Oscar's nap?

2. What happens in the next scene of Oscar's play?

3. What does Lily do and say when she visits Oscar?

4. For what do both Oscar and Trish want to sue?

5. What is the complaint that is filed by Oscar?

6. Why does Oscar demand a subpoena of Kiester's records?

7. How is James B. bitten?

8. What has Lily's lawyer told Oscar about his injuries?

9. How does Kevin know about Oscar's scar, according to Lily?

10. When Mother refuses to leave her broken-down farmhouse, what is the reasoning she gives to Thomas?

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