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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8 (through page 235).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Basie try to show Oscar about artists?
(a) They often steal ideas from others.
(b) They can innocently use things without outright stealing them.
(c) They should never be trusted.
(d) They can often forget from what they are inspired.

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

3. In Scene 2 of the play,Thomas approaches a limping Soldier wearing a worn Union uniform. Called back to active duty, the Soldier seeks to sell four months' worth of future pay for what?
(a) A train ticket to see his family.
(b) A drink of water.
(c) Three months' worth of cash for his family.
(d) A week's worth of food.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Thomas?

3. What does Bunker say is Trish's duty?

4. To what does Pai direct Oscar's attention to that Oscar identifies as coming from Book 1 of Plato's Republic?

5. Who is Christina's schoolgirl friend?

(see the answer key)

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