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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 has plagued the fields of the commune?
(a) Moles.
(b) Grasshoppers.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Aphids.

2. What do Maryna and Warnock do to solve the problem?
(a) Get Maryna a private airplane.
(b) Get Maryna her own private railroad car.
(c) Book fewer performances.
(d) Get Maryna her own bus.

3. From what Shakespearean play does Maryna quote to Halek?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) A Midsummer's Night Dream
(c) Othello.
(d) As You Like It.

4. What are the words Maryna at the end of the book?
(a) "That's enough, Edwin, dear Edwin. Stop, Edwin."
(b) "You remind me of Ryszard, my love."
(c) "I have fallen in love with you since I was a child."
(d) "I no longer want to act with you on the stage."

5. To where does Maryna travel for her first performances outside of San Francisco?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Virginia City, Nevada.
(c) Kansas City, Kansas.
(d) Salt Lake City, Utah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Booth begin doing while imitating David Garrick?

2. What does Halek steal from Piotr?

3. What does Maryna find waiting for her when she checks in to her hotel?

4. What two pieces is Maryna performing for the third week of her New York engagement?

5. What did Maryna buy for Aniela to wear in the photograph?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maryna compare her partners on the commune to actors?

2. In Chapter Six, many of the characters take on new names. Who are they and what are their new names? How does Maryna react to this change?

3. How does Booth treat Maryna in his monologue? Why does she suffer his verbal abuses?

4. In his love letter to Maryna in which he asks her to travel with him, Ryzard refers to Jack Goodyear, a squatter Ryszard has met in the mountains. Jack Goodyear explains to Ryszard that "sometimes it seems to him as though there were two Jacks." What does Goodyear mean by this?

5. After their brief affair, Maryna breaks off her relationship with Ryszard and sends him away. Why does Maryna end the relationship? How do each of them react to the rejection?

6. In Chapter Eight, Bogdan explains to Maryna he saw a flying machine on the beach in California. Who is with Bogdan when he sees the plane? Who owns the plane? What does it look like? What is the significance of Bogdan's interest in a flying machine?

7. Mr. Warnock uses a devise by which he fills the theatre. What does he do, and why? How does Maryna react to it? Does it work?

8. What does Edwin Booth have in his possession named Philo Perkins? What is the story behind Philo Perkins?

9. Maryna and her troupe continue their tour across America to packed theatres and adoring audiences. What does Mr Warnock suggest in order to facilitate one night stands across the country? How does this change the tone of her trip across country? What is the name lettered in gold on the car?

10. What is the history of the land on which Maryna and her group settle? What is the primary crop of the land?

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