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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act Two: Scenes 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Act One: Scene 6, who gives the final word that they the play can be produced?
(a) Johnston.
(b) Phillip.
(c) Collins.
(d) Dawes.

2. In Act One: Scene 5, how many plays does Mary Brenham remember that she has seen?
(a) None.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. In Scene 3, how many convicts are found guilty of stealing from the colony's stores?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. How does an aborigine describe the first convict ship to land in Australia?
(a) Floating house.
(b) Floating tent.
(c) Giant boat.
(d) Giant canoe.

5. Who is playing Captain Plume?
(a) Robert Sideway.
(b) John Wisehammer.
(c) Henry Kable.
(d) Ketch Freeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Silvia known when she is a man in The Recruiting Officer?

2. In Act Two: Scene 6, what does Ketch have to do?

3. What book does John Wisehammer say that his father found in a house he was clearing out?

4. How long did it take to hang Tom Barret?

5. What does Sideway say that a pickpocket has taken in Act One: Scene 11?

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