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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. Bringing Oscar groceries, what does Christina tell Harry about Lily?
(a) Pushing Oscar to use her new divorce lawyer to file a $1.5 million injury suit.
(b) That Oscar and Lily are now a couple, even though she is not officially divorced.
(c) She complains all the time and will not leave Oscar alone.
(d) She is annoying and in the way.

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

3. Christina mocks the thought of making a cripple cross the country to testify and suggests what?
(a) Kiester pick up Oscar's boxes and sort through them.
(b) Kiester come to them.
(c) Shipping them all the boxes to sift through.
(d) Shipping the rejection letter to Kiester.

4. Why does Oscar say his play has never been performed?
(a) Broadway only wants "tits and ass."
(b) He has yet to complete it.
(c) He is too afraid to show it to a producer.
(d) Broadway was never big enough for him.

5. Why does Basie interrupt by admitting Oscar's lawsuit could be a landmark if they win?
(a) He is trying to stay positive.
(b) He wants to convince Oscar his case has a chance.
(c) He wants to encourage Oscar to hire him.
(d) He hopes to forestall reading the entire script.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a lunch break accommodating Oscar's nap, Pai apologizes to Oscar for what?

2. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?

3. Of what does Harry warn Oscar?

4. What does Lily advise Oscar about the play?

5. Why is Christina upset with reporters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lily think of Oscar's play so far?

2. What does Basie notice when Oscar reads dialogue between Kane and Thomas about justice? How does Oscar respond?

3. Why does Oscar want invasion of privacy added to his complaint? Why does he want to add this?

4. How does Oscar explain his accident?

5. How and why does Basie interrupt the reading of the script?

6. What does Oscar think of Basie? Why does he keep him around?

7. What ends Oscar's play's character's, Thomas, dream of a life in public office?

8. How is James B. bitten?

9. Why must Thomas go to Quantness in this part of the play?

10. What takes place in Scene 2 of Oscar's play?

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