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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 Pai say separates Oscar from Shakespeare?

2. What does Oscar fear about his house?

3. Bringing Oscar groceries, what does Christina tell Harry about Lily?

4. In more responsive hands, observes the Times, the characters of the movie might have reflected what?

5. What does Pai say about Oscar seeking substantial monetary damages?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the reader first meet Trish Hemsley?

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

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

5. Why is Trish suing to maintain support payments for her son?

6. Why can Oscar not go to California, according to Christina? What are Basie and Oscar's plans, regarding this trip?

7. How does Basie explain why members of Oscar's family are left out of the suit and the language is repetitious?

8. What does Lily think of Oscar's play so far?

9. What happens in the next scene of Oscar's play?

10. What does Oscar do when Harold Basie arrives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lily has a lump in her breast.

Part 1) How does this affect her? What role does her lump play in her relationship with Oscar?

Part 2) What is this lump? What dose she do with this knowledge? Why?

Part 3) How will this news about her lump affect her life? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

God has no place in law.

Part 1) Prove this statement to be true, according to the story.

Part 2) How else is religion woven throughout this story?

Part 3) What role does religion have in the decisions made by the characters? What might be the author's purpose for this?

Essay Topic 3

Racism is raised.

Part 1) What is the connection between racism and one of the story's themes?

Part 2) How does racism permeate both the story and Oscar's play? What is the reason for this?

Part 3) Racist comments are made. Why? How does this racism affect you as the reader? Why are you affected this way?

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