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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. 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 characters of Oscar's play.
(c) The seriousness of war.
(d) The relationships between people.

2. The phone rings, and Trish leaves a rambling, disjointed message. What does she fear?
(a) She will be unable to get her abortion.
(b) The reporters will never leave.
(c) Being jailed over her abortion.
(d) Her boyfriend will find out she had an abortion.

3. In the 1930s, the yellow press ran stories about Grandfather doing what?
(a) Running for governor.
(b) Becoming a lawyer and finally a judge.
(c) Hiring substitutes in both the Union and Confederate armies who ended up killing one another
(d) Opening a secret dive bar during the days of Prohibition.

4. What does Oscar fear about his house?
(a) That his father wants to sell it.
(b) That is will need to be torn down.
(c) That his sister will want it.
(d) That he will not be able to afford the mortgage.

5. Why does Christina believe Trish could hardly seek an abortion in the hospital?
(a) The clinic was closer to her home.
(b) She perennially helps finance it and is currently suing it for fetal endangerment.
(c) Hospitals are expensive.
(d) The hospital is very dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Oscar admits at least one instance of two substitutes fighting and killing one another exists, how does Pai respond?

2. Why does Oscar demand a subpoena of Kiester's records?

3. In the next scene, Thomas intends to ignore what?

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

5. In the play's prologue, Mother asks about what, regarding Thomas?

(see the answer key)

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