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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1 Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many summers did August say that they had previously spent excavating at the site in Act 1?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. What are the directions that August gives Dianne regarding his recording?
(a) To match them with the corresponding slides.
(b) To listen to them.
(c) To type them up.
(d) To mail them to the university.

3. Who enters the darkness with a flashlight in the end of Act 1 Part 2?
(a) Delia.
(b) Dan.
(c) August.
(d) Cynthia.

4. What is the setting at the very beginning of Act 1?
(a) The kitchen of August's home.
(b) August's study.
(c) The university.
(d) The site of the dig.

5. Where does August say that the remains of an extensive village were discovered?
(a) Not six hundred yards from the house.
(b) Across the river.
(c) Under the lake bed.
(d) In the neighboring town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the Aztec poem that is recited in Act 1?

2. What does August say his father did to Delia?

3. What does Delia claim was the model for Camus' The Plague?

4. What is Delia's last name?

5. What does Dan claim is another name for the Temple Mound People?

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