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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Oscar feel about Father having no time to read his play?
(a) Reassured.
(b) Happy.
(c) Livid.
(d) Sad.

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

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

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

5. Why does Oscar insist Christina come see the television?
(a) Spot the dog is being interviewed on the nightly news.
(b) His father is speaking to the camera.
(c) There's a mob carrying placards that say, "KEEP GOD IN AMERICA, MURDERER."
(d) There are many funny commercials to watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the morning, about what does Oscar read?

2. Why had Harry, who had known this a few days, not told Oscar?

3. A copy of District Judge Crease's Instructions to the Jury in the case of Fickert v. Ude arrives in the mail. What are jurors told to do?

4. What does Christina say should have been an early sign Oscar would never please Father?

5. When might Oscar's conflict with Father, since he saw the movie, blow over?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oscar plan to do with his play?

2. What does Jerry think about religion?

3. What does Christina do about Oscar's legal bills? Why does she do this?

4. Why does Oscar want Christina to see the television?

5. What are the connections between the play and the movie?

6. Why do Christina and Lily find Oscar staring blankly in the library?

7. What does Jerry think about Oscar's characters, Kane and Bagby?

8. Why is Lily's father unable to collect his son's insurance money?

9. What are Oscar's plans for his play?

10. What is the only thing the papers have gotten right?

(see the answer keys)

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