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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15 (through page 430).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pai say separates Oscar from Shakespeare?
(a) Shakespeare wrote in a time when there were no copyright laws.
(b) Talent.
(c) Many centuries.
(d) The average person, too, has access to such materials; and the way he and Shakespeare execute the ideas is what separates them.

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

3. What does Jerry think will happen by having Bagby hungering for intelligent talk in an intellectual wasteland?
(a) It will destroy the character.
(b) It will improve the character.
(c) It will make the audience hate the character even more.
(d) It will be too deep for the audience.

4. What does Lily tell Oscar that her Daddy and Rev. Billy Joe are blaming her for?
(a) Bringing a lawyer down to help Daddy collect the insurance money.
(b) Not stopping Billie from driving home.
(c) Giving Billie alcohol before wrecking his new car.
(d) Allowing Billie to buy a car.

5. How does Mother reply when Thomas asks what she wants?
(a) To move onto a nice plantation.
(b) Only to stay with her son.
(c) To move up north.
(d) Only to lay up treasures in heaven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bone describe Erebus?

3. What does Oscar say when Christina tells him there will be no funeral?

4. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?

5. In the 1930s, the yellow press ran stories about Grandfather doing what?

(see the answer key)

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