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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cynthia do with the film of photographs of the artifacts in Act 2?
(a) She unravels it.
(b) She throws it into the lake.
(c) She gives it to Chad.
(d) She gives it to August.

2. What is being examined at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) A polaroid.
(b) A shovel.
(c) The lake.
(d) A slide.

3. What is the last image we see in the play?
(a) August standing alone.
(b) The lake.
(c) A slide of Dan.
(d) The view of the house.

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

5. When does August say Delia left the house she grew up in?
(a) When she was 7.
(b) When she was 12.
(c) When she was 9.
(d) When she was 17.

6. What does Delia compare the novel she wrote to in Act 2?
(a) A riddle.
(b) All of the answers are true.
(c) A Chinese puzzle box.
(d) A Russian doll.

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

8. What kind of seeds does Kirsten find in the sifter in Act 2?
(a) Rye.
(b) Corn.
(c) Cannibis.
(d) Maize.

9. What was the bone awl that August displays made from?
(a) A turkey.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A rabbit.

10. The grave of the god-king represents what to August?
(a) The end of the lake construction.
(b) The most important find in 40-years' work.
(c) His greatest disappointment.
(d) The beginning of a new life.

11. August refers to the dig as what in Act 2 Part 3?
(a) A salvage operation in which we salvaged nothing.
(b) The curse that cost him his marriage.
(c) A miserable failure.
(d) The greatest acheivement of his life.

12. What does Dan suggest Delia write a book and title it?
(a) The Last of the Mound Builders.
(b) The Last of the Mohicans.
(c) The Jaskerville Extinction.
(d) The Dying of Blue Shoals.

13. What does Dan rush in exclaiming to Jean in Act 2 Part 4?
(a) The dam has flooded.
(b) They've discovered the great temple.
(c) They've found the grave of a god-king.
(d) They have lost everything.

14. Dan states that there's a law - "since 1954 - in this state - against" what?
(a) Abandoning a wrecked vehicle.
(b) Disturbing Tribal burial grounds.
(c) Threatening a man's wife.
(d) Public-funded transportation defacing Indian monuments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is mentioned by Cynthia is planning on driving down in the morning after the discovery?

2. Who comes to the house looking for Dan in Act 3 Part 5?

3. What does August say was found in the lake in Act 2 Part 5?

4. What does the Chinese proverb say that Jean quotes?

5. What literary term defines August's statement of blindness to the passing moon?

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