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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often is the safe deposit box checked by its owner?
(a) Once a year.
(b) About every six months.
(c) Once a week.
(d) About twice a month.

2. What does Horace drink to prepare for his visit with the family?
(a) Gin.
(b) Sweet tea.
(c) Moonshine.
(d) Coffee.

3. Why does the family need to travel out of state?
(a) For adventure.
(b) To finish the deal with Mr. Marshall.
(c) To look for more businesses to buy.
(d) To get better health services for Horace.

4. Why does Horace believe the family's business decision is wrong?
(a) They know nothing about cotton.
(b) They know nothing about industrialization.
(c) They know nothing about management.
(d) They will make money off the labor of men who will not be paid a fair wage.

5. What is the brilliant idea that is derived after learning the contents of the safe deposit box?
(a) To borrow the bonds, then pay them back.
(b) To take half the bonds and fill the rest of the envelopes with blank papers.
(c) To stage a fire at the bank and say the bonds were consumed.
(d) To steal the bonds outright.

6. Who refuses to shake Leo's hand as they part in Act 2?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Cal.
(c) Ben.
(d) Horace.

7. What does Alexandra overhear her mother tell her father in Act 2?
(a) She hopes he dies soon.
(b) She's in love with Mr. Marshall.
(c) She's going to kill him.
(d) Zan is not his daughter.

8. Who follows Horace to argue when he leaves the room after telling the family he will not invest in their business?
(a) Birdie.
(b) Zan.
(c) Regina.
(d) Addie.

9. Who attempts to stop the argument in Act 2?
(a) Zan.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Ben.
(d) Addie.

10. What does Regina wonder aloud in front of her guests might have contributed to Horace's poor health?
(a) His "fancy women."
(b) His own cheapness.
(c) His greed.
(d) His "cheap women."

11. Who tells Ben that the family has come up with Horace's share of money?
(a) Zan.
(b) Birdie.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Leo.

12. Who does Alexandra ask for when she arrives back home?
(a) Regina.
(b) Leo.
(c) Addie.
(d) Birdie.

13. Whose shoe is in the safe deposit box?
(a) Horace's.
(b) Regina's.
(c) Alexandra's.
(d) Leo's.

14. Who works as a teller at the local bank?
(a) Ben.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Birdie.
(d) Leo.

15. What is the family lacking at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Horace's share of the investment.
(b) Reliable transportation.
(c) Clever ideas.
(d) Time to get to the meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the safe deposit box belong?

2. In Act 2, when do Regina's true feelings come out?

3. How does Regina greet her husband in Act 2?

4. How is it explained to Ben that the family came up with Horace's share of the money?

5. Armed with the knowledge of the safe deposit box, who gets a brilliant idea?

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