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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The greatest acheivement of his life.
(d) A miserable failure.

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

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

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

6. How big does Dan say the bass they caught is?
(a) Nine pounds.
(b) Seven pounds.
(c) Six pounds.
(d) Twelve pounds.

7. What does August say has never been discovered from Mississippian Culture?
(a) Indications of cannibalism.
(b) The grave of a god-king.
(c) Signs of poetry and literature.
(d) An altar.

8. Why does Dan say he jumped into the water in the end of Act 1?
(a) To see if Chad would save him.
(b) For fun.
(c) To test his life jacket.
(d) To catch the fish.

9. What is Dan painting the copper beads with to preserve them in Act 2 Part 4?
(a) Oil.
(b) Soap.
(c) Nail polish.
(d) Turpentine.

10. Who is present at the opening of Act 2?
(a) Everyone except Kirsten.
(b) Dan, Chad and Kirsten.
(c) Cynthia, Jean and Dan.
(d) August and Delia.

11. Whom does Delia refer to as a hustler in Act 2?
(a) August.
(b) Chad.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Dan.

12. Who does Chad take by the neck, claiming you can kill someone, by twisting it "in the right place?"
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Dan.
(c) Jean.
(d) August.

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

14. August encounters a slide of himself in Act 2 Part 3. Where is he in the photograph?
(a) His college graduation.
(b) A funeral.
(c) The excavation site.
(d) His wedding.

15. Who suggests the tribal people might have been cannibals?
(a) Jean.
(b) Dan.
(c) Chad.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has happened to Chad's Oldsmobile in Act 2 Part 4?

3. August states in Act 2 Part 3 to the recorder that at one time he had a doctorate in one hand and what in the other?

4. What does Delia ask Jean to do at the very end of Act 1?

5. What does Delia consider her most serious "sin" to be?

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