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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Prior, essentially what is AZT?
(a) Hoakum
(b) A placebo
(c) A cure
(d) Poison

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

3. Which of the following characters is not in the Epilogue of the play?
(a) Hannah Pitt
(b) Joe Pitt
(c) Belize
(d) Prior Walter

4. Where in New York are Roy Cohn's disbarment hearings being held?
(a) Syracuse
(b) Manhattan
(c) Yonkers
(d) White Plains

5. Who is next to Prior when he returns to his hospital bed in Act 5, Scene 8?
(a) Belize
(b) Louis
(c) Hannah
(d) Emily

6. What does Prior carry with him when he enters heaven in Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) The Sacred Book
(b) His black cloak
(c) His IV drip
(d) A large crucifix

7. Why do the dead all play cards in heaven?
(a) One does not have to talk
(b) They have nothing else to do
(c) There is a possibility of chance
(d) They all abstained from it on Earth

8. What happens to Hannah when the Angel kisses her in Act 5, Scene 1?
(a) She has an orgasm
(b) Her hair turns gray
(c) She passes out
(d) She begins to cry

9. At the beginning of Act 4, Scene 7, Harper ask Joe why he does what during sex?
(a) Closes his eyes
(b) Weeps
(c) Covers her mouth
(d) Remains silent

10. What news does Ethel Rosenberg deliver to Roy in Act 4, Scene 9?
(a) He has been disbarred
(b) He has died
(c) The papers know he has AIDS
(d) She and Julius are in heaven

11. In what part of the Angel's body has a torn muscle after she wrestles Prior in Act 5, Scene 1?
(a) Her wrist
(b) Her shoulder
(c) Her ankle
(d) Her thigh

12. According to Belize, who will not be in heaven?
(a) The Mormons
(b) Reagan
(c) God
(d) Roy

13. What kind of cologne is Joe wearing in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) Faberge
(b) Giorgio
(c) Bulgari
(d) Alain Delon

14. In Act 3, Scene 4, which of the following is not a place Louis mentions as a hot bed of homosexual mating?
(a) St. Mark's Baths
(b) Jones Beach
(c) Fire Island
(d) Central Park

15. In what color is the Angel dressed when she enters Prior's hospital room in Act 5?
(a) Grey
(b) White
(c) Red
(d) Black

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Louis doing when Joe enters his apartment at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 8?

2. What does Harper demand of Joe in the beginning of Act 5, Scene 9?

3. According to Sarah Ironson, what is central to the Jewish Way?

4. What character's spirit helps Louis with the Kaddish?

5. Where do Louis Ironson's parents live?

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