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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. When Pai asks Oscar to read several passages and state whether he recognizes them, from where does Oscar acknowledge they come?
(a) Eugene O'Neill's dreary play, Mourning Becomes Electra.
(b) Kaufman and Hart's play, You Can't Take It With You.
(c) Gower Champions' musical, 42nd Street.
(d) Eugene O'Neill's play, Ah Wilderness.

2. What does Pai say about Oscar seeking substantial monetary damages?
(a) He will not be awarded much money, since the movie was a failure and a flop.
(b) He is seeking them for a work he claims to have created not primarily for monetary gain.
(c) He deserves every penny he can get, because the movie is surely based on his play.
(d) He is being greedy and wanting what is not his.

3. In the play's prologue, Mother asks about what, regarding Thomas?
(a) His training.
(b) His education.
(c) His wife.
(d) His wound and heroism.

4. Thomas muses how the trees, rocks and ditches - all so casually ignored in peacetime - are what in battle?
(a) In the way of the soldiers.
(b) Crucial to survival.
(c) Bloody and twisted.
(d) Cruel and disfigured.

5. The Major makes an aside to Kane about what, regarding Israel?
(a) All slaves should be educated.
(b) Israel would be a powerful ally to have against Thomas.
(c) Educating a slave to read and carve wood like Israel is an invitation to trouble. K
(d) Israel will never get caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?

2. Why does Basie explain the complaint must conform to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?

3. What does Lily declare about Oscar's play so far?

4. Why does Mother resent Thomas' marriage to Giulielma?

5. What does Thomas' mother refuse to leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kevin know about Oscar's scar, according to Lily?

2. What does Lily do and say when she visits Oscar?

3. What ends Oscar's play's character's, Thomas, dream of a life in public office?

4. Where are Harry and Christina at the beginning of the story?

5. Why can Oscar not go to California, according to Christina? What are Basie and Oscar's plans, regarding this trip?

6. How does Oscar become even more convinced the movie is based on his play? Of what does Harry warn him?

7. How and why does Basie interrupt the reading of the script?

8. What is explained about the slave, Israel? What are both the Major, Kane, and William's thoughts regarding this discussion?

9. How does Kiester respond to this?

10. How does the reader first meet Trish Hemsley?

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