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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 Sports Jacket referred to as by other Anarchists?
(a) Mugger.
(b) Window Straddler.
(c) The Killer.
(d) Iron Fists.

2. Who slips and falls on the marble in front of the reporter?
(a) The Maniac.
(b) Sports Jacket.
(c) The Superintendent.
(d) Bertozzo.

3. What does the Maniac do accidentally with his "eye?"
(a) Buries it.
(b) Swallows it.
(c) Throws it out the window.
(d) Drops it.

4. What does the Superintendent say they were all doing just before midnight?
(a) Hanging the anarchist.
(b) Belittling the guard.
(c) Kidding around.
(d) Kicking each other.

5. Where does the Superintendent refer to there being spies to the reporter when he claps his hands?
(a) In the audience.
(b) In the trees.
(c) In the courtyard.
(d) In the sewers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Maniac suggest as the reason why it wasn't cold at midnight in December?

2. What kind of false hand does the Maniac take out to replace his once it falls off?

3. Which character says to the Maniac in Act 2, "Please. Your eminence; I flunked Latin three times!"?

4. What does Bertozzo bring in during the interview with the reporter?

5. How many people does the Superintendent say were in the room around midnight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is learned from the phone call during the meeting of the Maniac and the police officers? What reaction does this cause?

2. How does the Maniac react to the "second version" of the statement about the Anarchist? What question remains?

3. What does Bertozzo do in the climax of the play in Act 2? How does he regain control of the room?

4. What does the outcome presented by the Maniac mean to those involved? What will be their outcome granted the evidence?

5. What does the Maniac argue regarding the alibi witnesses? How does the journalist respond to this argument?

6. What does the Maniac ask regarding the window during the Anarchist's interrogation? What is the reply?

7. What does the Maniac joke about regarding the "laughter" in the interrogation with the Anarchist?

8. What does the journalist ask about the police interaction with the bomber? How does the Superintendent reply?

9. What does the journalist ask the Superintendent first in her interview?

10. What happens with the Maniac's "glass eye" during Act 2, Scene 1?

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