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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. Who enters the darkness with a flashlight in the end of Act 1 Part 2?
(a) August.
(b) Dan.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Delia.

2. What does Dan complain about at the dig site in Act 1?
(a) The ignorance of August.
(b) His wife getting in the way.
(c) Townspeople crowding around.
(d) The lack of assistance.

3. Which character won a national spelling bee as a kid?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Delia.
(c) August.
(d) Jean.

4. Who appears with Jean in front of the slide of the lake in Act 1?
(a) Delia.
(b) Dan.
(c) August.
(d) Chad.

5. Which character says, "I have an intense desire to turn to the end of the chapter and see how it all comes out?"
(a) August.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Dan.
(d) Jean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Delia talks of a soothsayer in Dombey and Son. Who changed the future in the book?

2. Where does August say that the remains of an extensive village were discovered?

3. What does Chad have a model of in Act 1?

4. Jean asks Delia, "Where does it hurt, D.K.?" What is Delia's reply?

5. What do Dan's notes state the two mounds in a village were for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Delia describe her ex-husband? How old was she when she married him? What was his profession?

2. Dan says early in the play that there are many reasons for building mounds in ancient societies. What are some of these?

3. What fact about Jean's character does Dan ask that August not reveal to the others early in the play? Why?

4. Who is suspiciously holding the flashlight in the blackout at the end of Act 1? Why?

5. What does August say blinds a man "to the passing moon?" What does he mean?

6. How does Dan react to Delia's comment in Act 2 that everyone vanishes "without a trace?"

7. Who is the character named Chad? How does he relate to the other characters in the play? What is his position in relation to the house and the excavation site?

8. Describe how Delia's perception of the human eye as a child relates to her perceptions about the world today.

9. Which character's father was a physiologist? Describe the father's office from the perspective of that character.

10. In the opening of the play, August speaks into a tape recorder. To whom is he speaking and why?

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