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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Delia consider her most serious "sin" to be?
(a) Lying.
(b) Cheating.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Humiliating herself.

2. What do Chad and Dan argue over the risk of in Act 1 Part 7?
(a) Mixing beer and whiskey.
(b) Mixing whiskey with wine.
(c) Mixing beer and milk.
(d) Mixing beer with marijuana.

3. What is the life expectancy of the villagers where the dig is taking place?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Fourty.

4. What does August say to the recorder in Act 2 Part 3 is "becoming an enemy to thought?"
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Love.
(c) Fiction.
(d) History.

5. What does August accuse Chad of after the discovery at the dig?
(a) Being a fool.
(b) Cheating with his wife.
(c) Being only concerned with making a profit.
(d) Cheating him of money.

6. Which character says, "I owe him my life, he's not got anything on me?"
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Chad.
(c) Dan.
(d) August.

7. How many mounds does August claim have been opened in North American discovery?
(a) Thousands.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 300.

8. Who is August with in Act 2 Part 3?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) No one.
(c) Dan.
(d) Delia.

9. What time is it when Dan and Chad awaken Jean in the end of Act 1?
(a) 3:00 a.m.
(b) 2:00 a.m.
(c) 2:30 a.m.
(d) 1:30 a.m.

10. What does August say to Delia at the end of Act 2 Part 4, as a means of lashing out at her?
(a) That he wished she were dead.
(b) That he always hated her.
(c) That she was adopted.
(d) That their father never cared about her writing.

11. Who is found in the dark wearing the god-king mask in Act 2 Part 5?
(a) Dan.
(b) Delia.
(c) August.
(d) Chad.

12. What does Delia do to calm down the hysterical Jean in Act 2?
(a) She takes her outside.
(b) She makes her a drink.
(c) She slaps her.
(d) She calls for Cynthia.

13. In Act 2 Part 3, what does August claim is taken up "to blind him to the passing moon?"
(a) A man's life work.
(b) History.
(c) A wife.
(d) Love.

14. Who is mentioned by Cynthia is planning on driving down in the morning after the discovery?
(a) Dr. Lefitt.
(b) Croff.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) John Wilmore.

15. Who gives an angry speech about Mr. Cochise, who was the creator of the awl-bone tool found at the site?
(a) August.
(b) Delia.
(c) Dan.
(d) Cynthia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says, "I wouldn't be a man. Not and carry all the dumbfounding load they've saddled themselves with?"

2. What does Cynthia do with the film of photographs of the artifacts in Act 2?

3. When Dan and Chad arrive drunk in Act 1 Part 7, who is silently sitting in the room?

4. Why does Dan say he jumped into the water in the end of Act 1?

5. What does Delia compare the novel she wrote to in Act 2?

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