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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 14 (through page 405).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What calls Oscar's play's first act superfluous, the last act untargeted, and the whole play void of purpose?
(a) Broadway producers.
(b) The newspapers.
(c) The rejection letter.
(d) The television broadcasts.

2. When might Oscar's conflict with Father, since he saw the movie, blow over?
(a) Once Father realizes the movie is based on Oscar's play.
(b) Once Oscar's play is on Broadway.
(c) Once Father realizes how good the movie was.
(d) Once Oscar loses the lawsuit, proving the play is not worth stealing.

3. Basie finds dialogue between Kane and Thomas about justice familiar, and Oscar says it is from what?
(a) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Shakespeare's Othello.
(c) Thomas Jefferson's autobiography.
(d) Plato's Republic.

4. How does Oscar feel about Father having no time to read his play?
(a) Happy.
(b) Livid.
(c) Sad.
(d) Reassured.

5. Sitting with Basie, waiting for Oscar to finish physical therapy, Christina knows Oscar considers Basie as what?
(a) Little better than a distracted delivery boy.
(b) A great friend and terrific lawyer.
(c) An intelligent and gifted lawyer.
(d) A good and trustworthy man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily tell Oscar have been dashed?

2. Basie remarks on the house's value. How does Oscar reply?

3. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?

4. Who is the "Murderer" being burnt in effigy?

5. In the 1930s, the yellow press ran stories about Grandfather doing what?

(see the answer key)

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