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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12 (through page 349).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Oscar?
(a) He has been run over by a car.
(b) He needed a root canal.
(c) His meeting is running late.
(d) He had to work late at work.

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

3. Who is Thomas?
(a) He is the hero and a born aristocrat in his thirties, dressed in a rumbled field uniform, bearing a battle scar that is evident but not disfiguring.
(b) He is a figment of Oscar's imagination.
(c) He is the director of the Civil War movie.
(d) He is the Crease's next door neighbor.

4. What does Harry advise Oscar regarding history?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It cannot be repeated.
(c) One should not make a play about it.
(d) One cannot copyright it.

5. What does J. Harret Ruth share with Senator Orney Bilk?
(a) A desire to become judges in the appeals court.
(b) A desire to support Father in his courtroom.
(c) A desire to see Father rejected for the appeals court.
(d) A desire to rule the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Oscar's ordeal done to Christina and Harry's marriage?

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

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

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

5. What does Oscar fear about his house?

(see the answer key)

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