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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harper threaten to do if Joe walks out on her in Act 1, Scene 8?
(a) Knock on doors until a man answers and have sex with him
(b) Go to the roof and leap off
(c) Board the first flight back to Salt Lake City
(d) Turn on the oven until the building fills with smoke

3. Which of the following qualities does Roy says he does not possess in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) Contentment
(b) Niceness
(c) Empathy
(d) Weakness

4. Before hanging up on Joe, for what does Hannah chastise him?
(a) Being gay
(b) Staying out late at night
(c) Drinking
(d) Leaving Salt Lake City

5. According to Louis in Act 3, Scene 7, what do he and Joe have in common?
(a) They are both afraid
(b) They are both terrible people
(c) They both need someone
(d) They both love the night

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of Hannah's does Sister Ella Chapter like most?

2. In what room of the Brooklyn Federal Court of Appeals does Act 1; Scene 6 take place?

3. Like what does the snow of Harper's metaphysical Antarctica in Act 3, Scene 3 smell?

4. Which of the following is not an historical figure Roy considers a father figure?

5. Why, according to Joe, does he not want to have sex with Harper most days?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Joe Pitt confused by Louis' invitation to come home with him?

2. Why does Harper not want to stay in heaven in Act 5, Scene 2?

3. How has Prior Walter's illness progressed over the course of Angels in America?

4. How does Harper come to realize she is not in the Antarctic in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What are Joe and Harper's secrets in Act 1, Scene 8?

6. How do Prior and Harper meet for the first time in the real world?

7. What do Prior and his two ancestral visitors in the beginning of Act 3 have in common besides a name?

8. Where is Roy the last time we see him in the play?

9. Why does Harper long for the end of days?

10. In Act 2, Scene 5, why does Belize fear that Prior is losing his mind?

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