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The Mound Builders | Quiz

Lanford Wilson
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The Mound Builders | Quiz

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1)

What do Dan's notes state the two mounds in a village were for? (from Act 1 Part 4)

The God-King and the Shaman.
The Temple and the Graveyard.
The Shaman and the Villagers.
The God-King and the Temple.
2)

Why is Delia wearing "real clothes" the morning of Act 2 Part 5? (from Act 2 Part 5)

She is having a party.
She plans on leaving today.
She is going to visit the dig site.
She is well.
3)

Jean says to Delia that the Temple Mound People were likely runaways from whom? (from Act 1 Part 5)

The Toltecs.
The Aztecs.
The Incas.
The Cherokee.
4)

Who quotes Aztec poetry in Act 1? (from Act 1 Part 4)

Delia.
August.
Cynthia.
Dan.
5)

What does Delia believe about the human eye from looking at charts as a child? (from Act 1 Part 5)

That it could tell the future.
That it could see through things.
That it emitted rays of light.
That it absorbed rays of light.
6)

How does Delia describe the temporary secretary she hired to transcribe her book? (from Act 1 Part 6)

Haughty and proud.
Very neat, sweet, meek.
An idiot.
Demure and prudish.
7)

Who comes to the house looking for Dan in Act 3 Part 5? (from Act 2 Part 5)

Jean.
Chad.
Cynthia.
The archeology students.
8)

What does Cynthia do with the film of photographs of the artifacts in Act 2? (from Act 2 Part 5)

She throws it into the lake.
She gives it to Chad.
She unravels it.
She gives it to August.
9)

What is the name of Delia's second book? (from Act 1 Part 6)

Seven Nights.
The Last Days.
The Doctor.
Spindrift.
10)

Which character says in Act 1, "The truth is in dreams and nightmares, but you haven't succeeded in getting that down?" (from Act 1 Part 5)

Dan.
Cynthia.
Delia.
August.
11)

Who is the professor who taught Delia's book in Dan's college class? (from Act 2 Part 2)

Dr. Smith.
Dr. Levins.
Dr. Howe.
Dr. Landau.
12)

What upsets Delia after the completion of her novel? (from Act 1 Part 6)

She thought the transcriber hadn't liked it.
She believed her publisher wouldn't buy it.
She thought it was awful.
She had lied while writing it.
13)

Delia talks of a soothsayer in Dombey and Son. Who changed the future in the book? (from Act 1 Part 5)

The hero.
The villain.
The girl.
The soothsayer.
14)

What word does August repeat several times at the end of Act 2 Part 3? (from Act 2 Part 3)

Nothing.
Legacy.
Meaning.
Life.
15)

Which character says, in Act 1, "We'd be working somewhere else if our work here wasn't important?" (from Act 1 Part 4)

Cynthia.
Dan.
Jean.
August.
16)

Who suggests the tribal people might have been cannibals? (from Act 2 Part 1)

Chad.
Jean.
August.
Dan.
17)

The grave of the god-king represents what to August? (from Act 2 Part 3)

The most important find in 40-years' work.
The end of the lake construction.
His greatest disappointment.
The beginning of a new life.
18)

Which character says, "I wouldn't be a man. Not and carry all the dumbfounding load they've saddled themselves with?" (from Act 1 Part 7)

Jean.
Kirsten.
Delia.
Cynthia.
19)

Who does Chad take by the neck, claiming you can kill someone, by twisting it "in the right place?" (from Act 2 Part 4)

August.
Cynthia.
Dan.
Jean.
20)

Why is it suggested that Jean call the Sheriff in Act 2 Part 5? (from Act 2 Part 5)

Chad is missing.
Dan is missing.
The artifacts are stolen.
The dig is destroyed.
21)

Who calls Dan a Howdy-Dowdy, hale-fellow, nice guy in Act 1? (from Act 1 Part 6)

Cynthia.
Jean.
August.
Delia.
22)

What is the top caste that Dan and August speak of for the ancient people? (from Act 2 Part 1)

The Suns.
The Honored Men.
The Chiefs.
The Nobles.
23)

What does Dan say he fell asleep wrapped around in New York? (from Act 1 Part 6)

A stop sign.
A mailbox.
A fire-alarm box.
A street post.
24)

Why do Dan and August leave to go back to the dig site at the end of Act 2 Part 1? (from Act 2 Part 1)

To protect it from looters.
To hide their findings.
To cover it with tarps from the rain.
To look for more artifacts.
25)

Jean says that in one village six men were laid out ceremonially with what cut off? (from Act 1 Part 4)

Their right hands.
Their legs.
Their heads.
Their genitalia.
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