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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 is Roy Cohn most proud of in his entire career?
(a) The Army-McCarthy hearings
(b) The Reagan Revolution
(c) The Alger Hiss case
(d) The Rosenberg execution

2. What commodity did Prior's ship captain ancestor bring to England?
(a) Whale oil
(b) Cattle
(c) Tropical fruit
(d) Chippendale furniture

3. What liquid does Harper theorize will come from her breasts after she gives birth to her Antarctic baby in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Black coffee
(b) Holy water
(c) Red wine
(d) Hot cocoa

4. According to Rabbi Chemelwitz, what do Jews believe in concerning sin?
(a) Guilt
(b) Forgiveness
(c) Attrition
(d) Abstention

5. Which of the following is not a term that Louis uses to describe the lawyers that do not comfort him while he's crying?
(a) Macho
(b) Heartless
(c) Homophobe
(d) Reaganite

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?

2. What is the title of the paperback novel that Belize quotes in Act 3, Scene 2?

3. Where is the pay phone that Joe uses to call his mother in Act 2, Scene 8?

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

5. Before hanging up on Joe, for what does Hannah chastise him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alexii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov compare the Theory of the Bolshevik Revolution with the Theory of the present?

2. Why does Prior wrestle the Angel in Act 5, Scene 1?

3. Describe Joe's interpretation of Jacob and the Angel.

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

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

6. What offer does Roy Cohn make Joe Pitt in Act 1; Scene 2?

7. What does Belize warn Roy about regarding his AZT?

8. Describe the interchange between Henry and Belize in Act 1, Scene 4?

9. What diagnosis does Roy demand of his doctor in Act 1, Scene 9, and why?

10. What bad news does Prior deliver to Louis the day of Sarah Ironson's funeral?

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