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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I: Pages 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The student is urged to take the hand of the Old Man in order to detect what quality?
(a) Rigidity.
(b) Cold.
(c) Warmth.
(d) Clamminess.

2. What is the Old Man reading the first time the audience sees him onstage?
(a) A magazine.
(b) An arrest warrant.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) An eviction notice.

3. The Student remarks that what activity has "become one of the fine arts these days" (4)?
(a) Persuading other people.
(b) Slandering other people.
(c) Robbing other people.
(d) Emulating other people.

4. When the Student first asks Johansson what the Old Man is "after," (14) what is the Student's initial guess?
(a) Adoration.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

5. The Milkmaid carries the milk in baskets made of what material?
(a) Gold.
(b) Wood.
(c) Wire.
(d) Canvas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Old Man tells the student, "Serve me and you shall be a lord of" (11) what?

2. The Student tells the Old Man that he is studying what subject?

3. Which character is revealed to be standing on the staircase when the curtain rises in Act I?

4. When the Student finds he is unable to free his hand from the Old Man's grasp, the Old Man says that before he dies, he wants to make which character happy?

5. What action is the Lady in Black performing the first time the audience sees her in Act I?

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