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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 1986 event are the Continental Principalities discussing at the beginning of Act 5, Scene 5?
(a) Chernobyl disaster
(b) Iran Contra Affair
(c) Hands Across America
(d) Challenger explosion

2. What does the Mormon Mother smell that indicates that her husband is returning?
(a) Honey
(b) Decay
(c) Fire
(d) Salt

3. According to Sarah Ironson, what is central to the Jewish Way?
(a) Guilt
(b) Struggle
(c) Resilience
(d) Fear

4. What historical twentieth century event happened the day God abandoned the Angels?
(a) The Stonewall Riots
(b) Black Tuesday
(c) V-J Day
(d) The Great San Francisco Earthquake

5. How is Prior's sight deteriorating?
(a) He is losing his depth-perception
(b) He is blind in his left eye
(c) He is becoming color-blind
(d) His peripheral vision is deteriorating

6. In Act 4, Scene 4, Prior tells Hannah it would be her lucky day if he was what?
(a) Stronger
(b) Straight
(c) A hairdresser
(d) A Mormon

7. Which of the figures of the diorama has no lines in the animatronic play?
(a) Orrin
(b) The Father
(c) The Mother
(d) Caleb

8. What shocking piece of information does Joe tell Louis in the beginning of Act 3?
(a) He is a Mormon
(b) He is moving to Washington
(c) He is married
(d) He loves Louis

9. What do Hannah and Prior say they have in common in Act 5, Scene 8?
(a) They both saw an Angel
(b) They both rely on the kindness of strangers
(c) They both had peculiar dreams
(d) They both need someone by their side

10. How does Belize explain Roy's ranting in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) He brain is deteriorating
(b) He hasn't slept in days
(c) He is high on morphine
(d) He is wracked with guilt

11. Who said "Have you no decency?"
(a) Joseph Welch
(b) Roy Cohn
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt
(d) Joe McCarthy

12. Where do Louis Ironson's parents live?
(a) Albany
(b) Buffalo
(c) Schenectady
(d) Hicksville

13. What treatment does Belize warn Roy to skip in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Ice packs to lower his temperature
(b) AZT
(c) Morphine drip
(d) Radiation

14. What part of the funeral Prior and Belize attend at the beginning of Act 2 does Prior find particularly distasteful?
(a) The New Orleans funeral band
(b) The choreographed dance during the procession in
(c) The Sicilian Mourners
(d) The sequined lining of the casket

15. What piece of information about Joe does Prior surprise Louis by knowing in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) He has just discovered he is gay
(b) He is a lawyer
(c) He is married
(d) He is Mormon

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe say he sees when he looks at Harper in Act 4, Scene 7?

2. What does Roy say in Act 2, Scene 5 that he most respects about black Americans?

3. What happens to Hannah when the Angel kisses her in Act 5, Scene 1?

4. At the end of Act 4, Scene 6, what does Prior say Hannah does to him?

5. What news does Ethel Rosenberg deliver to Roy in Act 4, Scene 9?

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