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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. According to Prior, of what is Louis incapable?
(a) Caring
(b) Living
(c) Loving
(d) Accepting responsibility

2. Of what Bible story was the picture that obsessed Joe at a young age?
(a) The raising of Lazarus
(b) David and Bathsheba
(c) Jacob wrestling the Angel
(d) Saul on the road to Taursus

3. 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) Turn on the oven until the building fills with smoke
(c) Board the first flight back to Salt Lake City
(d) Go to the roof and leap off

4. According to Prior's rant in the beginning of Act 3, Scene 7, the Recording Angel snaps the spine of what book?
(a) The Book of the Dead
(b) The Book of Life
(c) The Book of Heaven
(d) The Book of Days

5. What happens to Prior whenever he hears the celestial voice?
(a) He sweats profusely
(b) He gets an erection
(c) He pisses himself
(d) He becomes paralyzed

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe Pitt say he has to do before accepting a job with the Justice Department?

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

3. Which of the following is not a reason Joe gives for declining Roy's Justice Department offer in Act 3, Scene 5?

4. Which of the following is not a prediction Harper makes about the coming of the Millennium?

5. What famous instigator does Louis Ironson claim his grandmother saw speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Prior determine about Louis in Act 2, Scene 9?

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

3. What is Louis' point about fear in America at the end of Act 2, Scene 7?

4. What call does Hannah receive as soon as she arrives at Joe's apartment?

5. Which of Louis' assertions particularly offends Belize in Act 3, Scene 2?

6. How does Louis use an explanation of smell in Act 1, Scene 6, as a sexual come-on?

7. Why does Louis criticize Joe's decision on a case that found in favor of a gay soldier?

8. How does Louis end up in Prior's bedroom in Act 3, Scene 6?

9. What does Roy have to say about a father's love in Act 2, Scene 4?

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

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