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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Amir and Emily know that Isaac has arrived?
(a) There is a knock on the door.
(b) The doorbell rings.
(c) Emily’s phone rings.
(d) The intercom buzzes.

2. Who does Amir say Emily should get to pose for this portrait?
(a) His cousin.
(b) Her brother.
(c) His nephew.
(d) Her old boyfriend.

3. How frequently does Amir say Mort appears at the office?
(a) A couple hours a week.
(b) A few hours a day.
(c) A couple of days a week.
(d) A few times a month.

4. How is Disgraced performed?
(a) With one long intermission and two short ones.
(b) With one intermission.
(c) With intermissions after each scene.
(d) Without intermission.

5. Why does Abe want Amir to help Imam Fareed?
(a) Because he knows Amir’s expertise will bolster the legal team.
(b) Because he needs help translating the imam’s letters from prison.
(c) Because the imam’s legal team does not have any Muslims.
(d) Because Amir was his friend once.

6. What class are Amir and Emily in, based on their furnishings?
(a) Lower middle class.
(b) Wealthy elite.
(c) Upper middle class.
(d) Lower class.

7. To what does Amir attribute his antipathy to Islam?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Philosophical reasoning.
(c) Visceral disgust.
(d) Self-loathing.

8. How did Amir’s mother drive home her point about Rivkah to Amir?
(a) She locked him out of the house.
(b) She had his uncle take him away for a few days.
(c) She spat in his face.
(d) She broke his pinky finger.

9. In the text Amir is reading in Scene Two, what did he say Imam Fareed had been denied?
(a) Legal counsel.
(b) Humane treatment.
(c) Sanitary conditions.
(d) Due process.

10. How does the text Amir is reading in Scene Two describe his speech?
(a) Critical.
(b) Accusatory.
(c) Belligerent.
(d) Eloquent.

11. Where is Isaac a curator?
(a) The Guggenheim Museum.
(b) The Museum of Modern Art.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(d) The Whitney Museum.

12. How does the text Amir is reading in Scene Two characterize Imam Fareed’s tone?
(a) Conciliatory.
(b) Abrasive.
(c) Condescending.
(d) Defiant.

13. Why does it bother Abe to be called by the name Amir insists on calling him?
(a) Abe wants to honor his father with his new name.
(b) Abe does not want Emily to know he had changed his name.
(c) Abe wants to be more Americanized.
(d) Abe does not want to be reminded of his family back home.

14. What law does Amir say he would need to have experience with, to defend Imam Fareed?
(a) The Money Laundering Control Act.
(b) McCain-Feingold.
(c) The Patriot Act.
(d) Glass-Steagall.

15. What was it about the waiter that made Emily angry?
(a) His casual rudeness.
(b) The gap between reality and his assumptions.
(c) His sexist assumptions.
(d) His drunken belligerence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Emily?

2. What does Amir say his mother said about white women?

3. What has Imam Fareed been arrested for?

4. What does Isaac think about Emily’s work now, in Scene Two?

5. What authority does Abe refer to, in claiming that he can hide his religion?

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