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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 do the criminals tell Eleanor and Cindy to do?
(a) Take Ralphie and tie him in his bedroom.
(b) Make up some bed with linens.
(c) Make some dinner.
(d) Draw some bath water for the men.

2. Who is Samuel Robish?
(a) A man who robbed a bank.
(b) A man who commits a hit and run.
(c) A man who murders a pimp.
(d) A man who escaped jail.

3. Where does the situation in the wire report take place?
(a) Jonesburg.
(b) Pittsburg.
(c) Terre Haute.
(d) Fargo.

4. What do Dan and Cindy do?
(a) Attack Griffin.
(b) Get Hank's gun from him and push Hank outside.
(c) Fire a weapon to alert the neighbors.
(d) Throw hot coffee in Robish and Griffin's faces.

5. Where has Helen Laski been spotted?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Davenport.
(c) Terre Haute.
(d) Cleveland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Griffin send Dan out to do?

2. About what does Deputy Winston read a wire report?

3. How does Griffin cheer up Hank?

4. What does Chuck want to do that Cindy does not allow?

5. What advice does Dan give Ralphie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robish do when Chuck begins to come downstairs?

2. How does the atmosphere at the Indianapolis sheriff's department appear at the beginning of the play and what changes that?

3. What does Robish taunt Griffin about?

4. How does Dan react when the police pick up Cindy and Flick and what does he believe?

5. What does Ralphie do when he comes home?

6. During the first scene at the Hilliard house, how does Eleanor feel when her family are all gone off to their daily places, and what does she do?

7. Why do the criminals refuse money from Dan?

8. Who shows up at the house the next morning?

9. What does Dan do after Robish opens the front door?

10. Why is Dan Hilliard suspicious when he arrives home?

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