View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (through page 74).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Harry and Christina find Oscar trapped?
(a) Outside the house without his keys.
(b) In his car with the doors locked.
(c) In his bedroom screaming for help.
(d) In his new wheelchair and complaining about his new maid.

2. From whom does Christina read Oscar a letter?
(a) John Knize.
(b) Harry Lutz.
(c) Judge Crease.
(d) Harold Basie.

3. In more responsive hands, observes the Times, the characters of the movie might have reflected what?
(a) The deeper opposing dualities of man's nature.
(b) The seriousness of war.
(c) The relationships between people.
(d) The characters of Oscar's play.

4. Why does Mother resent Thomas' marriage to Giulielma?
(a) He married her to control the plantation.
(b) He married her to escape his family.
(c) He married her out of spite.
(d) He married her for her money.

5. Oscar is not sure he will walk again and has been assured by Kevin, Lily's lawyer; his scar is what?
(a) A minor problem and will fade with time.
(b) A permanent disfigurement ruining his earning capacity as a lecturer about Civil War battles.
(c) Only a nuisance.
(d) In need of many surgeries to be repaired.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Oscar?

2. When Oscar wonders how Kevin can describe his scar, what does Lily reveal?

3. Since when has Oscar been feeling terminal?

4. Why must Thomas go to Quantness?

5. What does Christina do when Oscar hints that Harry could handle the case?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 356 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample