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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When, according to the reporter, did the phone call to the ambulance take place?
(a) Two minutes after 12.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Two minutes before 12.
(d) Three minutes after 12.

2. Where is the letter from which the reporter produces speaking of Sports Jacket?
(a) San Ulelisi prison.
(b) San Vittore prison.
(c) Rome Institution.
(d) San Salvador prison.

3. When, according to the reporter, did the Anarchist jump precisely?
(a) Three minutes past 12.
(b) Three minutes before 12.
(c) One a.m.
(d) Midnight.

4. What does the Superintendent accuse the Maniac of doing to them in Act 2?
(a) Mocking them.
(b) Commisserating with them.
(c) Blaming them.
(d) Pitying them.

5. Who says, "Tell me how you put together a bomb and I'll tell you who you are?"
(a) Sports Jacket.
(b) The Constable.
(c) The Superintendent.
(d) The Maniac.

6. What does the report say which disputes the statement that the officer grabbed the Anarchist as he fell?
(a) His tie was undone.
(b) His glasses were broken.
(c) He fell backwards.
(d) He was wearing both shoes.

7. Who was one of the infiltrators in the Anarchists' circle?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The Maniac.
(c) A well-known Roman fascist.
(d) The Superintendent.

8. Which character says to the Maniac in Act 2, "Please. Your eminence; I flunked Latin three times!"?
(a) Bertozzo.
(b) The Constable.
(c) The Superintendent.
(d) The reporter.

9. How many dynamite attacks does the reporter say have taken place until today?
(a) 100.
(b) 160.
(c) 200.
(d) 173.

10. Who says, in Act 2, "I swear to you, I know that guy. He's never been in the police; he's wearing a disguise"?
(a) The Superintendent.
(b) Bertozzo.
(c) The reporter.
(d) The Maniac.

11. Why did the judge rule the alibis unreliable?
(a) They were associated with the bombing.
(b) They were elderly and in poor health.
(c) They were known criminals.
(d) They were rich.

12. When does the reporter have to turn in her article?
(a) In three days.
(b) This evening.
(c) In two days.
(d) Next week.

13. What does the Maniac suggest as the reason why it wasn't cold at midnight in December?
(a) There was a fire in the room.
(b) There was global warming.
(c) The sun hadn't gone down.
(d) There was love in the air.

14. Where does the phrase "headquarters had no head, 'cause the head man was in bed" come from, according to the Maniac?
(a) A sit-com.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) An old vaudeville routine.
(d) The Johnny Carson Show.

15. What piece of evidence does the Maniac say proves that the officer tried to save the Anarchist?
(a) His cigarettes.
(b) His glove.
(c) His glasses.
(d) His shoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the reporter, "the report on the _____ of the fall seems to be missing from the judge's dossier."

2. Which character says, "You know why as well as I do, Inspector. That way, the 'signature of the murderers was destroyed along with the bomb?"

3. Who says, regarding the journalist, "Don't you understand yet that I'm in the same boat with you guys? People like her you have to try to get on your side, not against you?"

4. Who says, "Its purpose is to establish whether or not the anarchist was still completely alive at the moment when he flew out of the window"?

5. Which character says, "If they had every member of that little pilgrim band under total and continuous surveillance, how come the band was able to organize such a complicated attack, without your coming in to stop them?"

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