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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Act I Scene 2, Peter wants Tom to agree to do what to the Council rather than provide them with the damaging report?
(a) Not show up for his meeting.
(b) Treat the incoming water.
(c) Make recommendations for improvements.
(d) Tell them everything is fine.

2. Who does Mr. Billing urge to stay for dinner in the beginning of Act I Scene 1?
(a) Mr. Aslaksen.
(b) Captain Horster.
(c) Mr. Hovstad.
(d) Mr. Kill.

3. When the boys come home from school and sense that their parents are in the middle of a conflict in Act I Scene 2, Tom tells them that he will be teaching them what?
(a) The definition of corruption.
(b) What a man is.
(c) What the truth is.
(d) How the world works.

4. In Act I Scene 2, Hovstad refers to the situation as what and plans to portray it as such in the newspaper?
(a) Very interesting.
(b) An epidemic.
(c) A joke.
(d) A scandal.

5. Who is the assistant editor of The People's Daily Messenger?
(a) Mr. Kill.
(b) Mr. Hovstad.
(c) Mr. Billing.
(d) Mr. Aslaksen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing the waste in the water, according to the report?

2. In Act I Scene 2, when Tom vows to stand up for his findings, Peter warns him that he will see to it that what?

3. What did Peter say in his note to Tom in the beginning of Act I Scene 2?

4. Catherine stuns Tom and Petra in Act I Scene 2 when she says, "What good is truth, without" what?

5. What is the setting of Act I Scene 1?

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