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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 pace does the play set during Act 1, Part 1, particularly where the dialogue is concerned?
(a) A fast pace with many conversations going on.
(b) A slow pace with very little conversation.
(c) A slow pace with many conversations going on.
(d) A fast pace with average conversation.

2. What is Woodenshoes wondering at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) If the reporters still want burgers.
(b) If Williams will shoot the reporters.
(c) If the reporters know how Williams escaped.
(d) If the reporters are looking for Williams.

3. What is the loud noise heard outside of the press room in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) A burglary alarm.
(b) A police siren.
(c) The testing of the gallows.
(d) A car crash.

4. What does Hildy promise to his girlfriend before hanging up the phone in Act 1, Part 4?
(a) To meet her at her father's house.
(b) To meet her at the train station.
(c) To meet her at the hanging.
(d) To meet her at the party.

5. Where does Hildy want Peggy and Mrs. Grant to wait for him?
(a) At the bus stop.
(b) At the paper's office.
(c) At the police station.
(d) At the train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jennie ask the reporters at the end of Act 1, Part 3?

2. What does Hildy assure his girlfriend of in Act 1, Part 4?

3. What city is Hildy's train going to, according to the tickets he shows the other reporters?

4. What does Kruger ask will happen as a result of Williams's escape?

5. According to Hildy in Act 2, Part 1, what did the psychiatrist do during Williams's examination?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hildy deal with the sheriff and what tactic does he use that the sheriff interestingly responds to in Act 1, Part 4?

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

3. What impression does Hildy make in relation to his general character at the beginning of Act 1, Part 3?

4. 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?

5. How does Burns deal with Bensinger in Act 3, Part 1, and what parallel can be drawn between that and another character in the book?

6. When does Mollie say she saw Williams and how does she explain her relationship with him to the reporters in Act 1, Part 4?

7. What do the other reporters illustrate when they urge the sheriff to interrogate Hildy in the beginning of Act 3, Part 2, and how does it contrast with what Hildy is doing?

8. What two different meanings can be interpreted from the way the other reporters react to Hildy's leaving in Act 1, Part 3?

9. What is the one thing Burns says that gets Hildy to write the story in Act 2, Part 5, and what does it say about Hildy's character?

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

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