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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Delia claims in Act 1 to have a terror of what?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Heights.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Gathering moss.

2. What does Delia say she did after finishing her book?
(a) Hid it under her bed.
(b) Got drunk for three days.
(c) Made a fortune.
(d) Went to a party.

3. What does Dan complain about at the dig site in Act 1?
(a) His wife getting in the way.
(b) The lack of assistance.
(c) The ignorance of August.
(d) Townspeople crowding around.

4. Which character says, "I have an intense desire to turn to the end of the chapter and see how it all comes out?"
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Jean.
(c) August.
(d) Dan.

5. Who is camping near the house?
(a) A group of hunters.
(b) A group of archeology students.
(c) Chad.
(d) A family from the town.

6. Which character won a national spelling bee as a kid?
(a) August.
(b) Delia.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Jean.

7. What does Chad have a model of in Act 1?
(a) The Jasker Development site.
(b) The archeological dig.
(c) The university.
(d) The lake.

8. Who appears with Jean in front of the slide of the lake in Act 1?
(a) Chad.
(b) Delia.
(c) Dan.
(d) August.

9. Jean says to Delia that the Temple Mound People were likely runaways from whom?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Cherokee.
(d) The Toltecs.

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

11. Who is the author of the Aztec poem that is recited in Act 1?
(a) Tinkonuktu.
(b) It is unknown.
(c) The shaman it was buried by.
(d) A God-King.

12. Why does Dan rattle on during his conversation with Delia in the middle of the night in Act 1 Part 6?
(a) He is nervous.
(b) He is drunk.
(c) He is distracted by his wife's affair.
(d) He is stoned.

13. What does Dan claim is another name for the Temple Mound People?
(a) The Aztecs.
(b) The Early Mississippian Culture.
(c) The Jasker Tribe.
(d) The Adena.

14. Who comes to comfort Kirsten at the end of Act 1 Part 2?
(a) Dan.
(b) Delia.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) August.

15. Who does Dan say build burial mounds?
(a) Villagers.
(b) Farmers.
(c) The Aztecs.
(d) Hunters and gatherers.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where are the students selected to assist the dig?

2. How is Kirsten related to Cynthia?

3. Who calls Dan a Howdy-Dowdy, hale-fellow, nice guy in Act 1?

4. How many times does Cynthia say Delia has contacted them in the past 10 years?

5. How old is Professor August Howe?

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