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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act II: Pages 24-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of medical aid does the Old Man bring with him to the ghost supper?
(a) An arm cast.
(b) Crutches.
(c) A walker.
(d) A wheelchair.

2. What is NOT a role the Colonel ascribes to the Student?
(a) Poet.
(b) Singer.
(c) Musician.
(d) Intellectual.

3. When the Colonel enters the Round Room to meet with the Old Man, what instruction does he give to the Old Man?
(a) Sit down.
(b) Bow.
(c) Lie down.
(d) Kneel.

4. The Old Man orders everyone to leave the ghost supper, with the exception of which two characters?
(a) The Girl and the Lady in Black.
(b) The Mummy and the Girl.
(c) The Student and the Girl.
(d) The Lady in Black and the Colonel.

5. What is the Student's response when the Old Man asks him if he is wealthy?
(a) He says that he is moderately wealthy.
(b) He says he is the exact opposite.
(c) He says that he is enormously wealthy.
(d) He says that he lives near the poverty line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incentive does Johansson name as the one that drives the Old Man?

2. The event discussed in Act II is called what kind of a supper?

3. Bengtsson claims that the Mummy has been living in the house for how many years?

4. Which character repeatedly addresses questions to a person named Jacob in Act II?

5. Johansson marvels at the fact that which character is "itching to get in" the house "as if it were a paradise" (20)?

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