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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. Who has recently died?
(a) Oliver's father.
(b) Charlie's father.
(c) Charlie's son.
(d) Charlie's mother.

2. What does Da tell adult Charlie about a particular cliff?
(a) It is called Lover's Leap.
(b) He almost slipped and fell there one time.
(c) The devil himself had visited it.
(d) A girl fell to her death there when he was a boy.

3. What does Charlie call Oliver after Oliver leaves?
(a) Vulture.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Scum.
(d) Saint.

4. Who appears with Charlie at the beginning of Act 1, Part 3?
(a) A priest.
(b) A young woman.
(c) His former wife.
(d) His birth mother.

5. Da tells Charlie that he never told him _______________.
(a) he loved him.
(b) a lie.
(c) about sex.
(d) about his birth mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since Charlie and Oliver have seen each other?

2. Where does Oliver want Young Charlie to go with him?

3. What cannot be said about Da after this scene with Mary?

4. To whom is Young Charlie writing a letter?

5. How many sons did Drumm have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What personal advice does Drumm give Charlie about his life?

2. Why does Charlie consider Da to be a millstone around his neck?

3. What does Da tell Charlie about his birth mother which is different from what his aunt has been telling him?

4. Who is Mrs. Prynne and why has she come to see Da in Act 2, Part 2?

5. Describe Young Charlie's romantic overtures toward Mary.

6. What begins to emerge about Da's character in Act 2, Part 2?

7. What has become of the spectacles sculpture?

8. How does Da make his first appearance in the play?

9. Explain the metaphor of Charlie's hurting himself on the glasses sculpture.

10. How does Charlie injure his hand on the glasses sculpture?

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