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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15 (through page 430).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oscar seats a guest, Harold Basie, in Grandfather's chair and asks him to do what?
(a) Read Act 1, Scene 1.
(b) Talk to him about his law career.
(c) Listen to Act 1, Scene 1.
(d) Tell him how he plans on winning Oscar's case against Kiester.

2. Kiester serves notice of intent to examine Oscar in Los Angeles and demands what?
(a) His play.
(b) Copies of any evidence.
(c) Time to organize a defense team.
(d) His presence.

3. Christina mocks the thought of making a cripple cross the country to testify and suggests what?
(a) Shipping the rejection letter to Kiester.
(b) Shipping them all the boxes to sift through.
(c) Kiester come to them.
(d) Kiester pick up Oscar's boxes and sort through them.

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

5. 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 Crease's next door neighbor.
(d) He is the director of the Civil War movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a lunch break accommodating Oscar's nap, Pai apologizes to Oscar for what?

2. What does Christina insist about the movie's hero?

3. What does Jerry think will happen by having Bagby hungering for intelligent talk in an intellectual wasteland?

4. Oscar sees Basie's point, but does not want what?

5. What does Oscar say when Christina tells him there will be no funeral?

(see the answer key)

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