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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. Which of the following characters does not appear in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) Mr. Lies
(b) Prior
(c) Joe
(d) Belize

2. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) An overgrown garden
(b) A hot spike
(c) A void
(d) A dead planet

3. Which horror movie does Harper fear takes place in Brooklyn?
(a) Poltergeist
(b) The Exorcist
(c) Rosemary's Baby
(d) The Omen

4. Why does Sister Ella Chapter come to Hannah's house in Act 2, Chapter 10?
(a) To help her pack
(b) To sell the house
(c) To borrow her car
(d) To have lunch

5. Of what Bible story was the picture that obsessed Joe at a young age?
(a) David and Bathsheba
(b) Jacob wrestling the Angel
(c) The raising of Lazarus
(d) Saul on the road to Taursus

Short Answer Questions

1. What commodity did Prior's ship captain ancestor bring to England?

2. According to Prior, of what is Louis incapable?

3. What famous instigator does Louis Ironson claim his grandmother saw speak?

4. Who does Harper realize is the "man with the knives?"

5. Who has the last line of Millennium Approaches?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Louis' point about fear in America at the end of Act 2, Scene 7?

2. What does Prior determine about Louis in Act 2, Scene 9?

3. What message does Sarah Ironson give Prior Walter Act 5, Scene 6?

4. How does Mr. Lies explain Harper Pitt's ill sense of ease?

5. Describe the setting of the Epilogue.

6. What does Martin Heller say is the result of loading the federal courts with conservative judges?

7. What does Roy have to say about a father's love in Act 2, Scene 4?

8. How does Louis use an explanation of smell in Act 1, Scene 6, as a sexual come-on?

9. Describe Harper in Act 5, Scene 9.

10. Why does Harper long for the end of days?

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