The Mound Builders | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Act 1 Part 1

1. What is the name of the person to whom August speaks in the tape recorder?

Dianne.

2. What is the setting at the very beginning of Act 1?

August's study.

3. In what month does the play begin?

February.

4. What is the term that defines Landford Wilson's use of a projector in The Mound Builders?

Multimedia Theater.

5. How old is Professor August Howe?

Forty.

6. How do we know when August is alone in his study?

The lighting confines to this area only.

7. Where on the set do the projections appear, according to the stage directions?

On the back wall.

8. What does August state on the recorder that he intends to do at the beginning of Act 1?

Go through what is left of the wreckage of the expedition.

9. What are the directions that August gives Dianne regarding...
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