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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Delia ship a trunk to August and Cynthia?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Oran.
(c) Cincinatti.
(d) Iran.

2. What does Cynthia say the posts were used for in Act 1?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Tombs.
(c) Weaponry.
(d) Walls.

3. What does Delia claim was the model for Camus' The Plague?
(a) Oran.
(b) New York.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Paris.

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

5. What do Dan's notes state the two mounds in a village were for?
(a) The Temple and the Graveyard.
(b) The Shaman and the Villagers.
(c) The God-King and the Shaman.
(d) The God-King and the Temple.

6. What do the lights begin to reveal at the end of Act 1 Part 1?
(a) The house in Blue Shoals.
(b) The lake.
(c) The University.
(d) The dig site.

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

8. Delia talks of a soothsayer in Dombey and Son. Who changed the future in the book?
(a) The hero.
(b) The girl.
(c) The villain.
(d) The soothsayer.

9. What does Dan ask August not to reveal to the others in early Act 1?
(a) That he has married Jean.
(b) That Jean is sick.
(c) That Jean is pregnant.
(d) That he is leaving.

10. From where are the students selected to assist the dig?
(a) August Howe's class.
(b) Dr. Loggin's class in field archeology.
(c) The Dean's office at the University.
(d) The townspeople.

11. In what month does the play begin?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) February.

12. Which character says in Act 1, "The truth is in dreams and nightmares, but you haven't succeeded in getting that down?"
(a) Delia.
(b) August.
(c) Dan.
(d) Cynthia.

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

14. How many summers did August say that they had previously spent excavating at the site in Act 1?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who carries Delia into the house in Act 1?

2. How old is Dr. Jean Loggins?

3. What upsets Delia after the completion of her novel?

4. Jean says that in one village six men were laid out ceremonially with what cut off?

5. What is the name of Delia's second book?

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