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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Roy Cohn most proud of in his entire career?
(a) The Alger Hiss case
(b) The Army-McCarthy hearings
(c) The Rosenberg execution
(d) The Reagan Revolution

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

3. Which of the following is not something Prior keeps in his bed to ward off spirits in Act 3, Scene 6?
(a) Garlic
(b) A wooden stake
(c) A mirror
(d) A crucifix

4. What does Louis ask Emily to tell Prior when he wakes in the hospital?
(a) He'll be back soon
(b) He had to go
(c) Get better
(d) He love him

5. How much money did Roy borrow from one of his clients?
(a) An undisclosed amount
(b) 1 million dollars
(c) 5 million dollars
(d) 500,000 dollars

6. What does Roy offer to do for Joe to help his decision regarding Washington in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Take care of paperwork for Harper's committal
(b) Represent him in divorce proceedings
(c) Pay for a townhouse and car in Washington
(d) Pay to move Harper back to Salt Lake City

7. What is to be Prior Walter's role, according to his ancestors in Act 3, Scene1?
(a) Scribe
(b) Messiah
(c) Sacrifice
(d) Prophet

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

9. From where did the plague that killed Prior 2 originate?
(a) Water pump
(b) Rats
(c) Potatoes
(d) Fleas

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

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

12. To what does Harper joke she will give birth in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) A puppy
(b) Nothing
(c) A homo
(d) A pill

13. What happens to Prior whenever he hears the celestial voice?
(a) He gets an erection
(b) He becomes paralyzed
(c) He pisses himself
(d) He sweats profusely

14. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) A void
(b) A dead planet
(c) An overgrown garden
(d) A hot spike

15. How many hot dogs is Joe eating when Louis sits with him in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. What commodity did Prior's ship captain ancestor bring to England?

2. From what dead figure does Ethel Rosenberg send a "hello" in Act 3, Scene 5?

3. Which of the following is not an ingredient Belize suspects was used in the production of the salve he brings to Prior in Act 2, Scene 5?

4. What does Louis worry aloud will happen to Joe if he touches him in Act 3, Scene 7?

5. According to Aleksii in Act 1, Scene 1, what must the human race have in order to move forward?

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