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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bone do next, in equal detail?
(a) Describe the movie.
(b) Describe how different the movie is.
(c) Point out why the play is so brilliant.
(d) Describe the similarities between the play and the movie.

2. In the morning, how does Christina find Oscar?
(a) Dressed in one of Father's suits and smoking for the first time in 20 years.
(b) In a tuxedo.
(c) In his pajamas, as usual.
(d) Asleep on the couch.

3. When Oscar fetches wine, how does Christina annoy him?
(a) When she demands he be careful with the bottle.
(b) When she demands the first glass.
(c) When she does not want a glass of wine.
(d) When she tells him he should not have any wine.

4. Who has Christina consulted about fulfilling Harry's wish for a clean getaway like the Judge?
(a) Lily.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Ilse.
(d) No one.

5. Why are the Judge's ashes in a coffee can?
(a) No one wanted to pay for an urn.
(b) Father loved to drink coffee.
(c) The funeral home ran out of urns.
(d) An urn would cost $100, which would infuriate the Judge.

6. What has happened every time Christina has tried to reach Harry?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He cries on the phone.
(c) He has refused to talk to her.
(d) He has been unavailable.

7. What do most of Oscar's charges represent?
(a) Administrative costs.
(b) Consultation Fees.
(c) Retainer Fees.
(d) Contingency Fees.

8. What does the district judge think about Oscar's case?
(a) It is boring and a waste of his time.
(b) There is no basis for unjust enrichment or fraud.
(c) It has a strong chance of winning.
(d) It is unbelievable how similar the movie and play are.

9. The medical reports verify drowning as the proximate cause of death, so what are the jurors supposed to do?
(a) Decide if there are any intervening causes within the defendant's control, which would make him liable for the death.
(b) Decide if the boy did in fact drown.
(c) If the boy had any medical conditions.
(d) How deep the water was.

10. What is the final amount of the film apportioned to Oscar?
(a) 25% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(b) 250% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(c) .25% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.
(d) 2.5% of the gross receipts to costs or $200,000.

11. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?
(a) A drop in interest rates.
(b) His case being dismissed.
(c) The injuries, arrests, and a nationwide outpouring of grief for Spot.
(d) His wildfires in California.

12. What does Lily tell Oscar have been dashed?
(a) Her hopes of reconciling with her Daddy and receiving money.
(b) Her chance of going back to school.
(c) Her new job opportunities.
(d) Her hopes of marrying him.

13. Why is Deedee out $80,000?
(a) She over spent on her credit card.
(b) She had tried to save money by not carrying collision insurance on her Lamborghetti, so she is out that money after a truckload of drunks ran into it.
(c) She has purchased a new foreign car.
(d) Someone has stolen her purse and used her credit cards.

14. To what does the clerk compare the death of a great man?
(a) To the destruction of an old building.
(b) To the death of a salesman.
(c) To a Civil War.
(d) To the burning of a library.

15. What does Jerry explain as the left hand side of Oscar's story?
(a) The runaway slave, the invisible man haunting Thomas (and the entire play).
(b) Kane hounding Thomas about justice and moral rectitude leading him deeper into his dilemma, and Bagby blackmailing him for 4,000 years of Christian guilt.
(c) Thomas's trip north to take care of his uncle's property.
(d) There is no left hand side of Oscar's story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oscar secretly have?

2. Christina decides to drive out and asks Harry to phone Sam or Basie to have them contact Oscar. Why can Harry not accompany her?

3. What news from Harry does Christina give to Oscar?

4. How does Christina feel about living with Oscar?

5. How much is Father's estate worth?

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