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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christina say should have been an early sign Oscar would never please Father?
(a) When he gets in trouble with Father for stripping the bark from a birch tree to build a canoe.
(b) When Father said Christina was his favorite child.
(c) When is first ran away from home as a child.
(d) When he gets in trouble with Father for not keeping his room clean.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Christina insist about the movie's hero?
(a) He is not Thomas/Grandfather.
(b) He somewhat resembles Thomas/Grandfather.
(c) He highly resembles Thomas/Grandfather.
(d) He is just like Thomas/Grandfather.

8. What is the right hand side of the story?
(a) There is no right hand side of Oscar's story.
(b) The runaway slave, the invisible man haunting Thomas (and the entire play).
(c) Thomas's trip north to take care of his uncle's property.
(d) 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.

9. 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.

10. What concerns Lily about the house, if Oscar does not care for it?
(a) The whole house will fall down.
(b) She will have to take care of it.
(c) It will be sold.
(d) No one will want to buy it.

11. Christina decides to drive out and asks Harry to phone Sam or Basie to have them contact Oscar. Why can Harry not accompany her?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) He is afraid of Oscar's reaction.
(c) He does not like Oscar.
(d) He must be in court.

12. Why does the clerk balk at destroying them?
(a) They belong to Oscar and Christina.
(b) He does not want to have to build a fire.
(c) He does not want to destroy the beautiful letters.
(d) They belong to him and he wants to keep them.

13. What are the jurors to disregard during the drowning case?
(a) All emotional outbursts by spectators.
(b) The boy's name and age.
(c) How the boy drowned.
(d) Circumstantial evidence.

14. Why does Oscar fail to notice Lily's new hairdo?
(a) Her hairdo is not very different.
(b) He is asleep.
(c) He is engrossed in a cartoon.
(d) She is standing behind him.

15. What does Oscar secretly have?
(a) New lawyers.
(b) A girlfriend.
(c) A new law suit.
(d) No lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily tell Oscar that her Daddy and Rev. Billy Joe are blaming her for?

2. While the plaintiff's play script is indisputably protected, what would not constitute copyright infringement?

3. What does the district judge think about Oscar's case?

4. To what does the clerk compare the death of a great man?

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

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