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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. Where does Oscar tell Christina that Ilse is?
(a) In Queens attending a workshop.
(b) In Brooklyn working as a teacher.
(c) In Manhattan working as a maid.
(d) In the Bronx attending to her blind sister.

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

3. How does Bone describe Erebus?
(a) As an old studio under new ownership.
(b) As a run-down studio.
(c) As a well-established studio.
(d) As an up-and-coming studio.

4. Why does Rev. Bobby Joe, freed from jail, say Daddy cannot come to visit?
(a) He is busy preaching.
(b) He has a baptism to attend to.
(c) He is having a big operation and Bobby Joe is offering him spiritual comfort in case the Lord carries him home during it.
(d) He no longer trusts Daddy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Father believe Oscar has done to Grandfather?

2. What does Lily tell Oscar have been dashed?

3. How does Oscar feel about Father having no time to read his play?

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

5. Why does the clerk balk at destroying them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lily say when she goes to see Oscar?

3. What does Oscar do when he is served a subpoena? What does Christina think about this?

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

5. What might happen regarding the legal bills brought about from Oscars suit? Why is this?

6. How are Harry and Oscar's situations with their fathers similar?

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

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

9. In what ways is the lower court correct? In what ways is Oscar correct?

10. What does Oscar learn about Basie?

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