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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10 (through page 290).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lily advise Oscar about the play?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Send it to a director and have it made into a movie.
(c) Produce a production of it on Broadway.
(d) Have someone read it who can understand it.

2. Who is the stooped old man Lily saw walking past the window as she drove up?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Mr. Cartwright, the family butler.
(c) Harry.
(d) Mr. Boatwright, the family plumber.

3. What does Oscar wonder about the movie's advertisement?
(a) If the producer is worried the movie will be a flop.
(b) If the scenes that resemble his play will be cut from the advertisments.
(c) If "based on a true story" is not an admission of guilt.
(d) How much the advertisements cost.

4. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?
(a) To see his wife.
(b) To pay the bills.
(c) To deal with his two slaves.
(d) To plant cotton.

5. Why had Harry, who had known this a few days, not told Oscar?
(a) It gives him his only chance of overthrowing a negative verdict.
(b) He was hoping to find a better lawyer.
(c) He was looking into Basie's past.
(d) It gives him time to think about how he feels about Basie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many causes of action does the plaintiff claim he has sustained?

2. Harry does not want to get involved with Trisha's case. What does he warn Christina?

3. What does Lily tell Oscar that her Daddy and Rev. Billy Joe are blaming her for?

4. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?

5. Of what does Thomas accuse his mother?

(see the answer key)

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