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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. How does Oscar reply when Basie interrupts to ask how Israel fits into his play?
(a) He is an essential character and member of the family, even though he is a slave.
(b) He does not; he is only a means of showing how, in those days, an educated black man was suspended between worlds.
(c) He is proof that others may free themselves from bondage.
(d) His running away is a catalyst for other events.

2. Oscar has not seen the movie but has heard and read the hero has what, which can hardly be a coincidence?
(a) A horse.
(b) A birth mark.
(c) A sword.
(d) A facial scar.

3. After a lunch break accommodating Oscar's nap, Pai apologizes to Oscar for what?
(a) Asking him so many questions.
(b) Not formally introducing himself.
(c) Any appearance of disrespect.
(d) Yelling at him.

4. Who is the stooped old man Lily saw walking past the window as she drove up?
(a) Mr. Boatwright, the family plumber.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Mr. Cartwright, the family butler.
(d) Harry.

5. Kiester counters the complaint, denying what?
(a) He has ever seen the play.
(b) All allegations.
(c) He realized the movie was based on Oscar's play.
(d) He made a Civil War movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Christina read Oscar a letter?

2. How much is the settlement offer worth about which Christina tells Harry?

3. In the morning, how does Christina find Oscar?

4. Oscar seats a guest, Harold Basie, in Grandfather's chair and asks him to do what?

5. Thomas muses how the trees, rocks and ditches - all so casually ignored in peacetime - are what in battle?

(see the answer key)

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