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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bringing Oscar groceries, what does Christina tell Harry about Lily?
(a) Pushing Oscar to use her new divorce lawyer to file a $1.5 million injury suit.
(b) She is annoying and in the way.
(c) She complains all the time and will not leave Oscar alone.
(d) That Oscar and Lily are now a couple, even though she is not officially divorced.

3. When does Jonathan Livingston change his name to Constantine Kiester?
(a) After grad school.
(b) After running for mayor.
(c) After acting on Broadway.
(d) After moving to Hollywood.

4. What does Oscar state about his teaching career?
(a) He has taught American History at Lotusville Community College for 12 years, more as a hobby than as an occupation.
(b) He has taught American History at Lawrence North High School.
(c) He has taught European History at Lotusvill Community College.
(d) He has taught European History at Lawrence North High School.

5. When Thomas recalls viewing his opponent and himself, how does he see them?
(a) As two separate worlds colliding.
(b) As together fighting death.
(c) As fighting for victory.
(d) As fighting for opposite causes.

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

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

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

9. When Christina announces someone is taking pictures on the lawn, what does Oscar demand?
(a) The cameras of the photographers.
(b) They go out and enjoy the free photography.
(c) She drive them away.
(d) She call the police.

10. What forces Thomas to go north to prevent the Union government from seizing everything?
(a) His ill wife.
(b) His uncle's death.
(c) His dying sister.
(d) His mother's death.

11. The defendants are enjoined to halt exhibition until when?
(a) The plaintiff can receive therapy.
(b) The plaintiff is given equal credit with the producer and director.
(c) The plaintiff gets the opportunity to see the movie.
(d) The plaintiff is given a monetary reward.

12. How does Christina irritate Oscar, when talking about the scene?
(a) By calling the scene "spooky."
(b) By calling the scene "boring."
(c) By calling the scene "in need of tweaking."
(d) By calling the scene "charming."

13. Basie remarks on the house's value. How does Oscar reply?
(a) Privacy is valuable in an era of tract homes.
(b) The house is very old and large.
(c) The home has been in his family for generations.
(d) The house is really not worth much.

14. What does Thomas' mother refuse to leave?
(a) The parlor.
(b) Her room.
(c) The farm.
(d) The broken-down farmhouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oscar maintains "when the idea is used in the context of the expression, combined with the expression, then the idea becomes part of the abuse I'm referring to," but denies what?

2. When Bagby leaves, Thomas and Kane discuss what?

3. Christina and Harry go to Room 612B and find Oscar upset. Over what is he upset?

4. Why are Harry and Christina Lutz waiting for Oscar?

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

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