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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Delia's second book?
(a) The Last Days.
(b) Seven Nights.
(c) The Doctor.
(d) Spindrift.
2. Delia admits to Jean in Act 1 that she is what?
(a) A liar.
(b) A hypochondriac.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Miserable.
3. How many houses does Cynthia surmise there might have been in the village?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) One-hundred.
4. In what month does the play begin?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) February.
5. Who tells Delia that the book is a success and "she was a failure?"
(a) Her father.
(b) Her husband.
(c) August.
(d) Her publisher.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the person to whom August speaks in the tape recorder?
2. What does Delia say in Act 1 that she is frantically beating the bushes for?
3. Why does Dan rattle on during his conversation with Delia in the middle of the night in Act 1 Part 6?
4. Who does Dan say build burial mounds?
5. Jean says that in one village six men were laid out ceremonially with what cut off?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does August feel about "aesthetics?" Why?
2. In the end of Act 2, Part 3, August repeats the word "nothing." What does this imply?
3. What is the climax of the play? Where does this occur?
4. In the opening of the play, August speaks into a tape recorder. To whom is he speaking and why?
5. What does the discovery in Act 2 Part 1 lead Dan to theorize about this ancient culture?
6. What does Delia compare her book to? Why?
7. What does the discovery of the God-king mean to August? Why?
8. Describe the relationship between Jean and Chad. Why does he show her the model in Act 1?
9. Compare the characters of August and Chad. How are they alike? How are they different?
10. Describe the character of Cynthia. Who is she in relation to the main character? How old is she? What is her profession?
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