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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. What does the Maniac do accidentally with his "eye?"
(a) Drops it.
(b) Swallows it.
(c) Throws it out the window.
(d) Buries it.

2. What is Sports Jacket referred to as by other Anarchists?
(a) Mugger.
(b) The Killer.
(c) Window Straddler.
(d) Iron Fists.

3. What does the Superintendent refer to as the Maniac's "techniques?"
(a) Intentional suicide.
(b) Sarcastic wordplay.
(c) Jesuit dialectics.
(d) Rhetorical response.

4. What does the Maniac suggest the officer was actually holding in his hand?
(a) A galosh.
(b) A rollerblade.
(c) A moccasin.
(d) A cowboy boot.

5. The Maniac asks when examining the Anarchist's jump who in the room acted as his what?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Footstool.
(c) Parachute.
(d) Irritant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Maniac suggest the Anarchist might have had shoes made of?

2. What does Bertozzo not know about in Act 2?

3. What excuse does the Maniac give the reporter why the bomb was buried?

4. What does the Maniac tell the officer he has slipped upon?

5. How many dynamite attacks does the reporter say have taken place until today?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Maniac joke about regarding the "laughter" in the interrogation with the Anarchist?

2. What does the Maniac argue regarding the alibi witnesses? How does the journalist respond to this argument?

3. What is Bertozzo's reaction to meeting the "Forensics Expert" from Rome?

4. What does the outcome presented by the Maniac mean to those involved? What will be their outcome granted the evidence?

5. How does the Maniac react to the "second version" of the statement about the Anarchist? What question remains?

6. What does the Maniac re-costume himself as before the reporter arrives? What do the others say?

7. What information is learned from the phone call during the meeting of the Maniac and the police officers? What reaction does this cause?

8. What is the Maniac's reaction to the explanations behind the Anarchist's jump?

9. What does Bertozzo do in the climax of the play in Act 2? How does he regain control of the room?

10. What evidence does the journalist produce regarding the Anarchist's jump?

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