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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Karen claim to have looked inside of Gould?
(a) His heart.
(b) His mind.
(c) His spirit.
(d) His aura.

2. What does Gould ask Karen about his personality?
(a) If he's frightened.
(b) If he's dull.
(c) If he's funny.
(d) If he's personable.

3. In Act Two, what does Gould accuse Karen of?
(a) Stalking him.
(b) Making fun of him.
(c) Sabotaging his career.
(d) Using him like everyone else does.

4. What does Karen try to convince Gould, towards the end of Act Two?
(a) To take her home.
(b) To introduce her to Ross.
(c) That people need each other.
(d) To make the Prison film.

5. What does Gould tell Karen people want to see in films?
(a) Explosions, sex and violence.
(b) Something new and revolutionary.
(c) What they saw the year before.
(d) Marriage, love and happiness.

6. In the novel, a character received a vision of infinity from what?
(a) Knowing the world would end.
(b) Botched eye surgery.
(c) Radiation from a microwave.
(d) God.

7. Karen claims that when people ask for a sign, they often realize what?
(a) They are totally alone.
(b) They are the sign.
(c) They have no control.
(d) God is angry with them.

8. What does Karen ask Gould regarding manuscripts?
(a) Why they are read.
(b) If they matter.
(c) Why anyone writes them.
(d) Who pays attention to them.

9. Who does Gould say has the power to make the book into a film?
(a) Fox.
(b) Richard Ross.
(c) Karen.
(d) Gould.

10. The book in Act 2 claims people are ruled by what emotion?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Lust.
(c) Greed.
(d) Fear.

11. Why does Gould feel the book will not make a good film?
(a) Stars will fight over it.
(b) It would cost too much to make.
(c) It won't translate in the foreign markets.
(d) No one will come to see it.

12. Where does Act 2 take place?
(a) Gould's car.
(b) Gould's office.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Gould's apartment.

13. What is Karen doing at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Fighting with Gould.
(b) Crying.
(c) Reading to Gould.
(d) Lecturing Gould.

14. Karen claims people do not want to see what in films?
(a) Sex.
(b) All of these.
(c) Titillation.
(d) Violence.

15. Gould likes to believe people are what?
(a) Followers.
(b) Mavericks.
(c) Cogs.
(d) Climbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karen ask Gould about his inner vision?

2. According to the book in Act 2, why does God send radiation?

3. Karen believes that people are what?

4. What is Gould's objective when he has Karen at his house?

5. What does Gould lie to Karen about when she confronts him?

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