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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1 Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jean says the women in her family have a history of what?
(a) Miscarriage.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Hot-tempers.
(d) Infertility.

2. How many houses does Cynthia surmise there might have been in the village?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) One-hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) Forty.

3. Where does August say that his sister was "scraped off the street?"
(a) Africa.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Eastern Asia.

4. Where does August say that the remains of an extensive village were discovered?
(a) Across the river.
(b) Not six hundred yards from the house.
(c) In the neighboring town.
(d) Under the lake bed.

5. What does August state on the recorder that he intends to do at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Re-sort his life.
(b) Illustrate the current expedition.
(c) Write a letter to his wife.
(d) Go through what is left of the wreckage of the expedition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is camping near the house?

2. Who is the author of the Aztec poem that is recited in Act 1?

3. In Act 1, Dan says "A person isn't happy unless ________."

4. Which character says, in Act 1, "We'd be working somewhere else if our work here wasn't important?"

5. What is the term that defines Landford Wilson's use of a projector in The Mound Builders?

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