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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Delia refer to as a hustler in Act 2?
(a) Chad.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Dan.
(d) August.

2. Who gives an angry speech about Mr. Cochise, who was the creator of the awl-bone tool found at the site?
(a) Delia.
(b) August.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Dan.

3. Why do Dan and August leave to go back to the dig site at the end of Act 2 Part 1?
(a) To look for more artifacts.
(b) To hide their findings.
(c) To protect it from looters.
(d) To cover it with tarps from the rain.

4. August states in Act 2 Part 3 to the recorder that at one time he had a doctorate in one hand and what in the other?
(a) A trowel.
(b) A book.
(c) A wedding ring.
(d) Hope.

5. What does August say has never been discovered from Mississippian Culture?
(a) Signs of poetry and literature.
(b) The grave of a god-king.
(c) An altar.
(d) Indications of cannibalism.

6. What does Dan rush in exclaiming to Jean in Act 2 Part 4?
(a) The dam has flooded.
(b) They've discovered the great temple.
(c) They have lost everything.
(d) They've found the grave of a god-king.

7. Why is Delia wearing "real clothes" the morning of Act 2 Part 5?
(a) She is having a party.
(b) She is well.
(c) She plans on leaving today.
(d) She is going to visit the dig site.

8. Who is present at the opening of Act 2?
(a) Cynthia, Jean and Dan.
(b) Dan, Chad and Kirsten.
(c) August and Delia.
(d) Everyone except Kirsten.

9. What kind of seeds does Kirsten find in the sifter in Act 2?
(a) Maize.
(b) Rye.
(c) Cannibis.
(d) Corn.

10. Why is it suggested that Jean call the Sheriff in Act 2 Part 5?
(a) Dan is missing.
(b) Chad is missing.
(c) The artifacts are stolen.
(d) The dig is destroyed.

11. The grave of the god-king represents what to August?
(a) His greatest disappointment.
(b) The end of the lake construction.
(c) The most important find in 40-years' work.
(d) The beginning of a new life.

12. What was the bone awl that August displays made from?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A turkey.

13. Who is August with in Act 2 Part 3?
(a) No one.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Delia.
(d) Dan.

14. August refers to the dig as what in Act 2 Part 3?
(a) A miserable failure.
(b) The greatest acheivement of his life.
(c) The curse that cost him his marriage.
(d) A salvage operation in which we salvaged nothing.

15. What does Delia say was in the "last box" of her novel?
(a) The truth.
(b) Her father.
(c) A lie.
(d) Another book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does August say to Delia at the end of Act 2 Part 4, as a means of lashing out at her?

2. What does August say about the lake in the beginning of Act 2 Part 2?

3. What is Dan painting the copper beads with to preserve them in Act 2 Part 4?

4. What does Delia ask Jean to do at the very end of Act 1?

5. What does Delia do to calm down the hysterical Jean in Act 2?

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