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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following major characters is not onstage at the end of Act 3, Scene 6?
(a) Prior
(b) Louis
(c) Roy
(d) Hannah

2. To what does Harper compare the souls she dreams of rising to heaven?
(a) Skydivers
(b) Meteors
(c) Balloons
(d) Birds

3. What character from the play wanders into the diorama in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Prior
(b) Hannah
(c) Belize
(d) Louis

4. Which of the following is not an element Louis uses to describe Joe's taste in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) Copper
(b) Gold
(c) Chlorine
(d) Iron

5. Which of the following books written by presidents is not mentioned in Act 4, Scene 8?
(a) Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
(b) Where's the Rest of Me? by Ronald Reagan
(c) The Vantage Point by Lyndon Johnson
(d) Six Crises by Richard Nixon

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

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

8. Which of the following characters never goes to the Afterlife in Angels in America?
(a) Hannah
(b) Harper
(c) Prior
(d) Roy

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

10. What does Prior request the Principalities bless him with at the end of Act 5, Scene 5?
(a) Strength
(b) Health and happiness
(c) More life
(d) Eternity in heaven

11. What color is the star of Ethel Rosenberg's hate?
(a) Blue
(b) Red
(c) White
(d) Green

12. When Prior asks Harper if she is a Mormon in Act 3, Scene 3, what does she say she is?
(a) An apostate
(b) A Moron
(c) A jack Mormon
(d) A psuedo-Mormon

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

14. In Act 5, Scene 4, what word does Harper tell Joe he says a lot?
(a) Help
(b) What
(c) Sorry
(d) No

15. In Act 4, Scene 3, Louis accuses Belize of hating him because why?
(a) He is bored
(b) He's in love with Prior
(c) He knows he is tougher than Louis
(d) He hates Jewish people

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Act 4, Scene 7, Harper ask Joe why he does what during sex?

2. What do Hannah and Prior say they have in common in Act 5, Scene 8?

3. With what is Harper playing when Prior sees in her Heaven?

4. By Act 4, Scene 4, how long has Hannah been trying to get hold of Joe since coming to New York?

5. In Act 1, Scene 6, what slang term does Louis use to describe the neighborhood where he lives?

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