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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Harper realize is the "man with the knives?"
(a) Mr. Lies
(b) Her father
(c) God
(d) Joe

2. To what destination does the Homeless Woman give Hannah directions in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) The Mormon Visitor's Center
(b) The Grand Concourse
(c) Prospect Park
(d) St. Patrick's Cathedral

3. Which of the following characters does not appear in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) Belize
(b) Prior
(c) Joe
(d) Mr. Lies

4. What does Harper threaten to do if Joe walks out on her in Act 1, Scene 8?
(a) Board the first flight back to Salt Lake City
(b) Knock on doors until a man answers and have sex with him
(c) Go to the roof and leap off
(d) Turn on the oven until the building fills with smoke

5. To what does Louis compare the gash on his forehead?
(a) The scarlet letter
(b) The mark of Cain
(c) The stigmata
(d) An Ash Wednesday marking

6. What characteristic of Hannah's does Sister Ella Chapter like most?
(a) Her quietness
(b) Her unfriendliness
(c) Her style fo dress
(d) Her unpresupposing manner

7. For doing what does Hannah chastise the policeman she speaks to on the phone in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Calling her "lady"
(b) Taking the Lord's name in vain
(c) Laughing
(d) Calling so late

8. in what famous English record is one of Prior Walter's ancestors featured?
(a) The Domesday Book
(b) The Bayeux Tapestry
(c) Hobein's Ambassadors
(d) Bede's Ecclesiastical History

9. What does Joe Pitt say he has to do before accepting a job with the Justice Department?
(a) Sublet his apartment
(b) Ask his wife
(c) Pray about it
(d) Quit his current job

10. Why is Harper confused by seeing Prior in her hallucination?
(a) She rarely sees drag queens
(b) She has never met him
(c) She did not think she took that much Valium
(d) She never has visitors in her hallucinations

11. Who has the last line of Millennium Approaches?
(a) Joe
(b) The Angel
(c) Prior
(d) Louis

12. What is Prior Walter's response to the Angel at the end Of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Go away.
(b) Help!
(c) Who are you?
(d) Bless me.

13. How much money did Roy borrow from one of his clients?
(a) An undisclosed amount
(b) 1 million dollars
(c) 500,000 dollars
(d) 5 million dollars

14. In Act 2, Scene 7, Joe wonders aloud if who ever loved him?
(a) Hannah Pitt
(b) His father
(c) God
(d) Harper

15. What do homosexuals lack, according to Roy?
(a) Foresight
(b) A history
(c) Clout
(d) Ethics

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Prior, of what is Louis incapable?

2. According to Rabbi Chemelwitz, what do Jews believe in concerning sin?

3. Why does Prior not tell Louis about his first lesion immediately?

4. In Prior's drag dream, at what age does he fear he will die?

5. Which of the following is not a term that Louis uses to describe the lawyers that do not comfort him while he's crying?

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