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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. in what famous English record is one of Prior Walter's ancestors featured?
(a) Hobein's Ambassadors
(b) The Bayeux Tapestry
(c) Bede's Ecclesiastical History
(d) The Domesday Book

2. Of whom does Ed Meese remind Martin Heller?
(a) Earl Warren
(b) Alexander Hamilton
(c) John Haldemann
(d) Teddy Roosevelt

3. What liquid does Harper theorize will come from her breasts after she gives birth to her Antarctic baby in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Holy water
(b) Hot cocoa
(c) Black coffee
(d) Red wine

4. What instrument plays the dance tune to which Prior and Louis dance in Act 3, Scene 6?
(a) Piano
(b) Violin
(c) Cello
(d) Oboe

5. According to Louis in Act 3, Scene 7, what do he and Joe have in common?
(a) They both need someone
(b) They are both terrible people
(c) They are both afraid
(d) They both love the night

6. What commodity did Prior's ship captain ancestor bring to England?
(a) Whale oil
(b) Chippendale furniture
(c) Cattle
(d) Tropical fruit

7. In what city does Roy believe he met Mormons?
(a) Las Vegas
(b) St. Louis
(c) Salt Lake City
(d) Rapid City

8. In what room of the Brooklyn Federal Court of Appeals does Act 1; Scene 6 take place?
(a) The cafeteria
(b) The central court
(c) The clerical pool
(d) The bathroom

9. What bible story does Louis ask Joe to tell him in Act 3, Scene 7?
(a) The story of Lazarus
(b) The story of Jacob and the Angel
(c) The story of Saul's conversion
(d) The story of Jacob and Isaac

10. In Prior's drag dream, at what age does he fear he will die?
(a) 35
(b) Never
(c) 30
(d) 26

11. In what city does the main portion of Act 1, Scene 1 of Perestroika take place?
(a) New York
(b) Moscow
(c) Salt Lake City
(d) Washington

12. What is the title of the paperback novel that Belize quotes in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) In Love with the Night Mysterious
(b) Silence of Ragged Plains
(c) Love's Breath in the Wind
(d) Cold Hands of the Morning

13. From what dead figure does Ethel Rosenberg send a "hello" in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) Whitaker Chambers
(b) Lenin
(c) Joseph Welch
(d) Her husband

14. Which of the following is not a term that Louis uses to describe the lawyers that do not comfort him while he's crying?
(a) Heartless
(b) Homophobe
(c) Reaganite
(d) Macho

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harper realize is the "man with the knives?"

2. According to Rabbi Chemelwitz, what do Jews believe in concerning sin?

3. Where is the pay phone that Joe uses to call his mother in Act 2, Scene 8?

4. To what does Harper joke she will give birth in Act 2, Scene 2?

5. What does Joe blame for Harper's pills in Act 2, Scene 4?

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