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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character is raised and taught by his/her grandmother?
(a) Dan.
(b) Jean.
(c) Chad.
(d) Delia.

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

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

4. What does Dan say he fell asleep wrapped around in New York?
(a) A street post.
(b) A fire-alarm box.
(c) A stop sign.
(d) A mailbox.

5. What is Dr. Jean Loggins' profession?
(a) Author.
(b) Archeologist.
(c) Gynecologist.
(d) Surgeon.

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

7. What is Delia's profession?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Painter.
(c) Author.
(d) Archeologist.

8. Which character says, "The natives get restless at night. The dogs raid the hen houses?"
(a) August.
(b) Delia.
(c) Dan.
(d) Cynthia.

9. Jean suggests to Delia in Act 1 Part 5 that what is different about the excavation this year versus the previous one?
(a) The atmosphere.
(b) Chad.
(c) The townspeople.
(d) Dan.

10. Who does Kirsten ask Delia about in Act 1 Part 4?
(a) Her female lover.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her boyfriend.

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

12. Delia admits to Jean in Act 1 that she is what?
(a) A hypochondriac.
(b) Terrified.
(c) A liar.
(d) Miserable.

13. Who arrives drunk at the door in the middle of the night in Act 1 Part 6?
(a) August.
(b) Chad.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Dan.

14. Where does Dan attend college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) NYU.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

15. Who calls Dan a Howdy-Dowdy, hale-fellow, nice guy in Act 1?
(a) Jean.
(b) Delia.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Dan's notes state the two mounds in a village were for?

2. Who does Jean say the people on the dig want to fit into a particular pattern, although they know nothing about?

3. What is the name of the person to whom August speaks in the tape recorder?

4. Who enters the darkness with a flashlight in the end of Act 1 Part 2?

5. Who does Dan say build burial mounds?

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