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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Oscar secretly have?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) No lawyers.
(c) A new law suit.
(d) New lawyers.
2. What do most of Oscar's charges represent?
(a) Administrative costs.
(b) Consultation Fees.
(c) Retainer Fees.
(d) Contingency Fees.
3. What does Kiester do regarding Oscar's script when undertaking a Civil War epic?
(a) Remembers all the details from reading the play many years ago.
(b) Says he remembers reading it.
(c) Kept a copy of the play for himself.
(d) Denies any recollection.
4. What does Bone do with the play besides summarizing the plot of the play and observing classical sources have been used?
(a) Analyzing the first two acts scene-by-scene.
(b) He vaguely describes the main characters.
(c) He makes fun of Oscar.
(d) He only discusses the parts that are similar to the movie.
5. What are the jurors to disregard during the drowning case?
(a) Circumstantial evidence.
(b) How the boy drowned.
(c) All emotional outbursts by spectators.
(d) The boy's name and age.
6. Why does the clerk balk at destroying them?
(a) He does not want to have to build a fire.
(b) He does not want to destroy the beautiful letters.
(c) They belong to him and he wants to keep them.
(d) They belong to Oscar and Christina.
7. When might Oscar's conflict with Father, since he saw the movie, blow over?
(a) Once Father realizes how good the movie was.
(b) Once Father realizes the movie is based on Oscar's play.
(c) Once Oscar loses the lawsuit, proving the play is not worth stealing.
(d) Once Oscar's play is on Broadway.
8. What does Christina say when Oscar says he needs a secretary?
(a) She calls Lily to see if she could help Oscar.
(b) She dismisses his plans to hire a secretary, suggesting he needs only a wastebasket and a housekeeper.
(c) She hires Ilse as his secretary.
(d) She sends her personal secretary to help Oscar.
9. What does Lily tell Oscar that her Daddy and Rev. Billy Joe are blaming her for?
(a) Not stopping Billie from driving home.
(b) Allowing Billie to buy a car.
(c) Giving Billie alcohol before wrecking his new car.
(d) Bringing a lawyer down to help Daddy collect the insurance money.
10. Why will the state do nothing to help Oscar with his legal fees, according to Harry?
(a) The state does not have the money to help him.
(b) It is Oscar's responsibility to pay his fees.
(c) Oscar is the one to have accumulated them.
(d) The law profession is self-regulating.
11. How does Christina feel about living with Oscar?
(a) She wants him to move in permanently.
(b) Near her wits' end.
(c) Getting used to him.
(d) She enjoys being with her brother.
12. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?
(a) His wildfires in California.
(b) His case being dismissed.
(c) The injuries, arrests, and a nationwide outpouring of grief for Spot.
(d) A drop in interest rates.
13. What does Bone do next, in equal detail?
(a) Describe how different the movie is.
(b) Point out why the play is so brilliant.
(c) Describe the similarities between the play and the movie.
(d) Describe the movie.
14. Where does Oscar tell Christina that Ilse is?
(a) In Queens attending a workshop.
(b) In Brooklyn working as a teacher.
(c) In the Bronx attending to her blind sister.
(d) In Manhattan working as a maid.
15. What does Oscar say about Jerry's ideas, regarding the story?
(a) This is too spooky.
(b) I do not like this at all.
(c) This goes too far.
(d) This is not deep enough.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Christina doing when Oscar and Lily find her on the phone with her vulture sisters-in-law?
2. Why is Oscar upset by this news?
3. Who has Christina consulted about fulfilling Harry's wish for a clean getaway like the Judge?
4. How does Jerry want to change the character of Kane, which would also put Broadway audiences in Oscar's hands?
5. What does Christina insist about the movie's hero?
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