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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Hannah Pitt wait for Joe to pick her up at the airport?
(a) Two and a half hours
(b) Five hours
(c) Four and a quarter hours
(d) Three and three quarters hours

2. When Prior tells Belize his wet dream involved a woman who is not "conventional," to whom does Belize suggest he is referring?
(a) Peggy Noonan
(b) Barbara Bush
(c) Joan Jett
(d) Grace Jones

3. According to Prior in Act 2, Scene 5, how long has he been in the hospital?
(a) An eternity
(b) A week and and a half
(c) 2 days
(d) He does not remember

4. To what film director's work does Prior compare his room in Act 3, Scene 7?
(a) Piero Paolo Passolini
(b) Steven Spielberg
(c) Luis Bunuel
(d) Martin Scorsese

5. In what country does Louis' Act 3, Scene 2, story of about subtle antisemitism abroad take place?
(a) England
(b) Norway
(c) France
(d) Denmark

6. In which borough of New York is Hannah Pitt lost in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Bronx
(b) Brooklyn
(c) Manhattan
(d) Queens

7. What famous instigator does Louis Ironson claim his grandmother saw speak?
(a) Joe Hill
(b) Emma Goldman
(c) John Reed
(d) Leon Trotsky

8. Who does Harper realize is the "man with the knives?"
(a) Mr. Lies
(b) God
(c) Her father
(d) Joe

9. What does Prior do while Louis is on the phone in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Leaves the apartment
(b) Soils himself
(c) Passes out
(d) Cries

10. What characteristic of Hannah's does Sister Ella Chapter like most?
(a) Her quietness
(b) Her unpresupposing manner
(c) Her style fo dress
(d) Her unfriendliness

11. Which of the following is not a reason Joe gives for declining Roy's Justice Department offer in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) Harper is missing
(b) He think he loves a man
(c) His mother is in New York
(d) He has a bleeding ulcer

12. Who did Joe Pitt vote for in the last presidential election?
(a) Reagan
(b) He will not say
(c) Mondale
(d) He did not vote

13. For doing what does Hannah chastise the policeman she speaks to on the phone in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Calling so late
(b) Taking the Lord's name in vain
(c) Calling her "lady"
(d) Laughing

14. Of what Bible story was the picture that obsessed Joe at a young age?
(a) The raising of Lazarus
(b) Saul on the road to Taursus
(c) David and Bathsheba
(d) Jacob wrestling the Angel

15. What does Harper bring with her when she enters in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A pine tree
(b) An oboe
(c) A polar bear
(d) A fishing spear

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Harper confused by seeing Prior in her hallucination?

2. Who does Belize call as soon as he realize Roy Cohn has been admitted?

3. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?

4. What does Louis ask Emily to tell Prior when he wakes in the hospital?

5. Which of the following names does Rabbi Chemelwitz accuse of being goyish?

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