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

2. What does Oscar do when the battery in his wheelchair dies?
(a) He buys a new one.
(b) He sits and complains.
(c) He cries.
(d) He begins walking.

3. Why is Oscar upset by this news?
(a) He will be highly taxed on this reward.
(b) He will not receive enough to cover his legal bills and no longer has Harry's advice.
(c) He will only be able to cover his legal bills.
(d) He will cover his bills but will not make a profit.

4. Who is the "Murderer" being burnt in effigy?
(a) Mother.
(b) Harry.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christina do when she finds Oscar engrossed in a nature program?

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

3. How does Christina feel about living with Oscar?

4. Why are the Judge's ashes in a coffee can?

5. What do witnesses confirm about the site of the drowning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Christina react when a real estate woman shows up at the house?

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

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

4. What connection is made between Lily and the law clerk?

5. How does Father uses religion in a court case?

6. What is learned about Lily's breasts?

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

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

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

10. What are Lily, Harry, and Oscar watching?

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