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

2. What did the police do with the one bomb which was recovered undetonated?
(a) Sent it to the lab.
(b) Blew it up.
(c) Gave it to the Russians.
(d) Had it examined.

3. What is discovered about the Maniac when he walks around the desk speaking to the reporter?
(a) A peg leg.
(b) A false nose.
(c) A rash.
(d) A fake beard.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of evidence does the Maniac say proves that the officer tried to save the Anarchist?

2. What does the Superintendent refer to as the Maniac's "techniques?"

3. Why did the judge rule the alibis unreliable?

4. Who says, "Bertozzo, you say something too; try to show that we're not asleep in our division, either?"

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Maniac's reaction to the explanations behind the Anarchist's jump?

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

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

4. What does the journalist say about the Anarchist's death being an accident? What is she implying?

5. What is Bertozzo's reaction to meeting the "Forensics Expert" from Rome?

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

7. What does the Maniac re-costume himself as before the reporter arrives? What do the others say?

8. How does the Maniac respond to the Superintendent's excuse about the window? What is the Superintendent's concern in this exchange?

9. What "new character" does the Maniac reveal himself to be in Act 2, Scene 1? How do the others react?

10. What documentation does the journalist present regarding recent bombings?

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