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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do Dan and August leave to go back to the dig site at the end of Act 2 Part 1?
(a) To look for more artifacts.
(b) To cover it with tarps from the rain.
(c) To hide their findings.
(d) To protect it from looters.

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

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

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

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

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) To catch the fish.
(c) For fun.
(d) To test his life jacket.

9. How does Dan almost drown the previous summer?
(a) A fish pulled him under.
(b) He fell out of the boat drunk.
(c) He was knocked out by an oar.
(d) Chad pushed him off the pier.

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

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

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

13. When Dan and Chad arrive drunk in Act 1 Part 7, who is silently sitting in the room?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) August.
(c) Kirsten.
(d) Delia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who enters to get a glass of milk at the end of Act 1?

3. When does August say to the recorder that they left the house for the last time?

4. Dan states that there's a law - "since 1954 - in this state - against" what?

5. What do Chad and Dan argue over the risk of in Act 1 Part 7?

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