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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 do the Superintendent and Sports Jacket ask of the Maniac in Act 1, Scene 2 once they've been told they'll be prosecuted?
(a) Advice.
(b) Justice.
(c) The death penalty.
(d) A waver.

2. How many times has the Maniac been arrested (including this time)?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

3. Who consistently backs up the story that the Maniac feeds the Superintendent and Sports Jacket about their conversation with the anarchist?
(a) Adolpho.
(b) The Constable.
(c) Bertozzo.
(d) Petruccio.

4. What, according to the Maniac, does no one think more about than the anarchist?
(a) His retirement.
(b) His suicide.
(c) His death.
(d) His bombings.

5. How many citizens were killed in the bombing by the accused Anarchist?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose office does the play open?

2. What does the Maniac insist that the Superintendent and the others did with the anarchist to cheer him up?

3. Why does the Maniac learn the judge is coming?

4. What does the Maniac say that the judge's name is who is coming?

5. How many "versions" of the statement regarding the anarchist's death are there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Maniac's justification for his "crimes" in Act 1, Scene 1?

2. What is the Maniac's suggestion to the Superintendent and Sports Jacket, considering their situation of desperation in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. What does the Maniac say he thinks about judges?

4. How does the Maniac say he "trained" for his work as a psychiatrist?

5. What does the Maniac return for in Act 1, Scene 1? What does he find?

6. What does the Maniac want to determine regarding the Anarchist's emotional state? How does he proceed?

7. What is described differently in the "second report?"

8. How does the Maniac offer to help out the Superintendent and Sports Jacket with their second version?

9. What does the Maniac tell Bertozzo about the actors he performs with?

10. What is the Maniac doing in the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

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