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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. Where does Kathy O'Brien tell Steve she was born?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. What part of the movie does Steve feel like he has walked into in the prologue?
(a) The middle.
(b) The credits.
(c) The beginning.
(d) The climax.

3. What does O'Brien say a termite looks like?
(a) An earwig with wings.
(b) An ant with wings.
(c) A cockroach with extra legs.
(d) A honeybee.

4. Who calls Steve "youngblood" in the screenplay following the note of Tuesday, July 7?
(a) Precious.
(b) King.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Peaches.

5. In the screenplay description of the inmates "yelling from cell to cell," what does the screenplay say about how most of the voices clearly sound?
(a) Like children's voices.
(b) Like women's voices.
(c) Like gravelly voices.
(d) Like Black or Hispanic voices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the exterior shot take place in the screenplay following the note of Tuesday, July 7?

2. What is the name of the "guy who is going on trial for killing his wife" whom Steve knows in prison?

3. In the credits in Chapter 1, Sandra Petrocelli is credited as what?

4. Why does Johnny think that "bank money is too serious?"

5. What does Steve say about the camera in the kind of movie he feels his life is like in the prologue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the reasons, according to O'Brien, that Steve should take this trial "very, very seriously"?

2. How does Detective Karyl describe the crime scene at the pharmacy?

3. In the prologue, Steve says "they say you get used to being in jail." What is Steve's take on this passage?

4. When the newscaster in Steve's "notes" section of the screenplay asks a passerby if he is shocked by the crime, what is the man's response?

5. What does James King look like on the first day of the trial?

6. How can Steve's lawyer be described?

7. When Steve gets dressed for court on Thursday, July 9 and thinks of his mother, what is she doing?

8. What is so shocking about Steve's father crying?

9. Why does Johnny, the ringleader of the eventual crime, want to rob a pharmacy instead of a bank?

10. How does the typeface of Steve's journal entries indicate stress or special meaning on certain words?

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