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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 (through page 156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Basie interrupt by admitting Oscar's lawsuit could be a landmark if they win?
(a) He is trying to stay positive.
(b) He hopes to forestall reading the entire script.
(c) He wants to convince Oscar his case has a chance.
(d) He wants to encourage Oscar to hire him.

2. Lily is distraught over Billie's death and what else?
(a) The expense of attending his funeral.
(b) Her lack of money.
(c) Billie's wrecked car.
(d) Oscar's cold behavior.

3. Bringing Oscar groceries, what does Christina tell Harry about Lily?
(a) That Oscar and Lily are now a couple, even though she is not officially divorced.
(b) She complains all the time and will not leave Oscar alone.
(c) Pushing Oscar to use her new divorce lawyer to file a $1.5 million injury suit.
(d) She is annoying and in the way.

4. Thomas muses how the trees, rocks and ditches - all so casually ignored in peacetime - are what in battle?
(a) Bloody and twisted.
(b) Cruel and disfigured.
(c) In the way of the soldiers.
(d) Crucial to survival.

5. Basie finds dialogue between Kane and Thomas about justice familiar, and Oscar says it is from what?
(a) Shakespeare's Othello.
(b) Thomas Jefferson's autobiography.
(c) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Plato's Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Thomas accuse his mother?

2. Why is Oscar certain he did not send his script to Kiester?

3. Bagby says the miners fear a drop in wages if the President does what?

4. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?

5. When Bagby leaves, Thomas and Kane discuss what?

(see the answer key)

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