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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom is Sarah Ironson playing cards in Act 5, Scene 6?
(a) Rabbi Chemelwitz
(b) Roy Cohn
(c) Harper Pitt
(d) Ethel Rosenberg

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

4. Who summons the ladder out of heaven for Prior Walter in Act 5, Scene 6?
(a) Sarah Ironson
(b) The Angel
(c) Rabbi Chemelwitz
(d) Ethel Rosenberg

5. Which of the following is Prior's chosen vestment starting in Act 2 of Perestroika?
(a) A dashiki
(b) Priest's vestments
(c) A Mormon missionary's attire
(d) A black robe

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

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

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

9. What does Prior suggest the Principalities do if God ever returns?
(a) Make him apologize
(b) Bar the doors against him
(c) Never let him leave again
(d) Take him to court

10. At the end of Act 4, Scene 8, Louis compares his fight with Joe to a sex scene in a book by what author?
(a) Phillip Roth
(b) Ayn Rand
(c) George Orwell
(d) Thomas Pynchon

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

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

13. With what is Harper playing when Prior sees in her Heaven?
(a) A checker board
(b) A cat
(c) A dradle
(d) A balloon

14. According to Emily in Act 4, Scene 6, how much weight has Prior lost?
(a) 8 pounds
(b) 16 pounds
(c) 4 pounds
(d) 12 pounds

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following major characters is not onstage at the end of Act 3, Scene 6?

2. In Act 5, Scene 4, what word does Harper tell Joe he says a lot?

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

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

5. Who said "Have you no decency?"

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