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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 Maryna and Warnock do to solve the problem?
(a) Book fewer performances.
(b) Get Maryna her own private railroad car.
(c) Get Maryna a private airplane.
(d) Get Maryna her own bus.

2. What is the name of the theatrical journal in Warsaw?
(a) The Modernist.
(b) The Antrakt.
(c) The Artist.
(d) The Prism.

3. What is the first line of Richard III?
(a) "Now is the winter of our discontent."
(b) "The Montegues and the Capulets war wage."
(c) "Made glorious summer by this son of York."
(d) "And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house."

4. Where do Jackob and Ryszard sleep their first night on the commune?
(a) In the barn.
(b) In a tent outside.
(c) In the small bedroom.
(d) In the kitchen.

5. Why did Booth's mother send him away at age fourteen?
(a) She sent him off to college.
(b) She sent him off to boarding school.
(c) She sent him off to live with a rich uncle.
(d) She sent him off to be his father's dresser and companion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise does Maryna make to Piotr when arrives in New York from months in California?

2. Where is Julian working while Maryna is in New York?

3. While visiting with Maryna in Poland, what does Henryk say to her?

4. At the conclusion of Chapter Five, what have the immigrants decided to do?

5. How does Edwin Booth's father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Mr. Warnock uses a devise by which he fills the theatre. What does he do, and why? How does Maryna react to it? Does it work?

2. How does Maryna define utopia? How does it compare to a marriage in her mind?

3. Maryna hires Eliza Withington to take a photograph of the group. Why does she do this? What conversation takes place between Eliza and Maryna after the photo shoot? How does the photo turn out?

4. In his love letter to Maryna in which he asks her to travel with him, Ryzard refers to Jack Goodyear, a squatter Ryszard has met in the mountains. Jack Goodyear explains to Ryszard that "sometimes it seems to him as though there were two Jacks." What does Goodyear mean by this?

5. In Chapter Eight, Bogdan explains to Maryna he saw a flying machine on the beach in California. Who is with Bogdan when he sees the plane? Who owns the plane? What does it look like? What is the significance of Bogdan's interest in a flying machine?

6. In Chapter Six, the communal group begins to break up. Where do people go? Does anyone join another commune? Do any of the group remain in California?

7. What does Julian's wife, Wanda, do when she arrives on their land? How is this typical of the character as she is portrayed by the narrator?

8. What does Maryna choose to use as her audition material for Mr. Barton? How does the audition go? How does the author describe Marya's return to the stage? What do we learn about Maryna?

9. How does Booth treat Maryna in his monologue? Why does she suffer his verbal abuses?

10. Edwin Booth talks about his father and his brother, John Booth. What does he reveal about these two important figures in his life?

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