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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Maniac accuse the Inspector of being ignorant of?
(a) Basic Italian grammar.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Basic English language.

2. What are the documents the person on the phone requests from the Maniac?
(a) The court appearance records and death certificate.
(b) The court appearance transcript and the order for arrest.
(c) The judicial transcripts and the order to file away investigation of anarchist's death.
(d) The judicial transcripts and the death certificate.

3. What is unique about the actors with whom the Maniac performs?
(a) They are great tragedians.
(b) They are comedians.
(c) They are dogs.
(d) They don't know they're acting.

4. What does the Maniac tear up when he returns to the office?
(a) The Anarchist Report.
(b) His prescriptions.
(c) His release papers.
(d) His criminal record.

5. Who consistently backs up the story that the Maniac feeds the Superintendent and Sports Jacket about their conversation with the anarchist?
(a) Adolpho.
(b) Bertozzo.
(c) The Constable.
(d) Petruccio.

6. Where does the Maniac suggest he might know the Superintendent from?
(a) Prison.
(b) Law school.
(c) Fighting in the war.
(d) A concentration camp.

7. What does the Maniac offer to assist with on the report in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The release.
(b) The dismissal.
(c) The typing.
(d) The recording.

8. How many mental institutions does the Maniac proclaim to have been in?
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Three.

9. Why does the Maniac learn the judge is coming?
(a) To put him in jail.
(b) To investigate the Anarchist's death.
(c) To hold a press conference.
(d) To fire Bertozzo.

10. How many citizens were killed in the bombing by the accused Anarchist?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Thirteen.

11. How many times has the Maniac been arrested (including this time)?
(a) Nine.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Three.

12. What is the Maniac excited about that he's going to do after hanging up the phone?
(a) Impersonate the judge.
(b) Impersonate Bertozzo.
(c) Find the Anarchist.
(d) Free the prisoners.

13. What does the Maniac threaten to do to the Inspector?
(a) Eat him.
(b) Slap him.
(c) Cry to him.
(d) Bite him.

14. What, according to the Maniac, does no one think more about than the anarchist?
(a) His death.
(b) His bombings.
(c) His suicide.
(d) His retirement.

15. In what city does the play take place?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) New York.
(d) Sicily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Maniac say that the superior council has?

2. In what version of the statement was it stated that the anarchist, looking "beaten-down," had lit a cigarette and commented in a tragic voice, "this is the end of the anarchist movement?"

3. Who says, "I'll bet you're even saner than I am?"

4. What does the Maniac tell the Constable when he asks what's going on in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What is Bertozzo late for after speaking with the Maniac?

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