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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 Oscar say his play has never been performed?
(a) He has yet to complete it.
(b) He is too afraid to show it to a producer.
(c) Broadway only wants "tits and ass."
(d) Broadway was never big enough for him.

2. When Christina announces someone is taking pictures on the lawn, what does Oscar demand?
(a) She call the police.
(b) The cameras of the photographers.
(c) They go out and enjoy the free photography.
(d) She drive them away.

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

4. In the next scene, Thomas intends to ignore what?
(a) His mother's cries.
(b) His desire to return home.
(c) His summons from the draft board.
(d) His fear of battle.

5. Why does Oscar demand a subpoena of Kiester's records?
(a) To waste time.
(b) To prove that the movie is based on his play.
(c) To prove the ad campaign is a last-minute attempt to poison the atmosphere over Szyrk.
(d) To annoy Kiester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has John Israel done?

2. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?

3. Oscar is not sure he will walk again and has been assured by Kevin, Lily's lawyer; his scar is what?

4. Oscar seats a guest, Harold Basie, in Grandfather's chair and asks him to do what?

5. Oscar has not seen the movie but has heard and read the hero has what, which can hardly be a coincidence?

(see the answer key)

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