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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the plaintiff do with the play?

2. What convinces Oscar the producer of "The Blood in the Red White and Blue," Kiester, has stolen the characters and themes of his play?

3. How does Mother reply when Thomas asks what she wants?

4. What has John Israel done?

5. In the 1930s, the yellow press ran stories about Grandfather doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the reader first meet Trish Hemsley?

2. What does Oscar do when Harold Basie arrives?

3. For what do both Oscar and Trish want to sue?

4. Why has Pai been having this discussion with Oscar? What does he want to know?

5. What is explained about the slave, Israel? What are both the Major, Kane, and William's thoughts regarding this discussion?

6. What is the complaint that is filed by Oscar?

7. What does Oscar think of Basie? Why does he keep him around?

8. How does Oscar use Shakespeare in his argument? What is Pai's response to this?

9. When Mother refuses to leave her broken-down farmhouse, what is the reasoning she gives to Thomas?

10. What does Lily do and say when she visits Oscar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A minor theme is Hiawatha.

Part 1) What or who is Hiawatha? How is this a theme?

Part 2) Why has the author included this as a theme?

Part 3) What is its connection with other themes in the book? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Harry dies.

Part 1) How does Harry die? Is his death foreshadowed? Explain.

Part 2) How does his death affect the other characters? Why does it affect them this way?

Part 3) What is the purpose of Harry's death? Why would the author have him die?

Part 4) Compare and contrast aspects of Harry's life and death to that of Judge Crease's.

Essay Topic 3

The family myth is destroyed.

Part 1) What is the family myth? How is it destroyed? How are the various characters affected by this?

Part 2) How different would the story have been if this myth had been discovered earlier in the story?

Part 3) How has this discover affected you as the reader? Why?

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