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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 does Peggy accuse Hildy of in Act 2, Part 2?
(a) Helping Williams escape.
(b) Not being honest with her.
(c) Not being able to resist Burns.
(d) Wasting the money.

2. Who does McCue tell his editor accidentally shot a cleaning woman?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Woodenshoes.
(c) The sheriff's deputy.
(d) Williams.

3. Who brings Mrs. Grant, Peggy's mother, in during Act 2, Part 2?
(a) Woodenshoes.
(b) Burns.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) McCue.

4. Why does the conversation between the woman and McCue end in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) The connection is broken.
(b) One of the other reporters pulls the phone out of the wall.
(c) McCue is frustrated and hangs up.
(d) She is upset and hangs up.

5. According to Bensinger, what won't the Sheriff change about the execution of Williams?
(a) The judgment.
(b) The time.
(c) The rule banning all press.
(d) The decision to make it a public event.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burns say he will help Mrs. Schlosser with in Act 1, Part 2?

2. What does Louie think about Hildy quitting in Act 1, Part 2?

3. What is the sheriff's reaction to the news of Hildy leaving the paper?

4. According to Bensiger in Act 1, Part 1, what do the other reporters use his area as?

5. How does the sheriff suggest to the reporters they can get more tickets to the hanging?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Williams tell Mollie about the escape and where he has been the whole time in Act 2, Part 4?

2. What do the senator's quotes at the end of Act 2, Part 2 say about his feelings towards the mayor, and how does the mayor respond?

3. According to Hildy in Act 2, Part 1, how did Williams get the gun in order to escape from jail?

4. Who is Mrs. Schlosser, what rule does she break in Act 1, Part 2, and what does it say about the reporters in general?

5. What does the conversation between Hildy and Peggy at the beginning of Act 2, Part 2 bring to light, and how do they relate to Hildy's inner struggle?

6. Choose one reporter's account of the escape as an example and describe how it was relayed in Act 2, Part 1?

7. What is the similarity of the way Burns treats both Hildy and Williams in Act 2, Part 5?

8. How does Williams meet Hildy in Act 2, Part 4, and what does he explain to him about the police?

9. What is one example from Act 1, Part 2 of the way the authors are portraying reporters as selfish people with only one agenda?

10. What joke does Hildy have at McCue's expense when the two cross paths in Act 2, Part 1?

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