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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Claire delayed her flight back home?
(a) She has delayed her flight because Catherine will not eat, talk, or get out of bed.
(b) She has delayed her flight because she no longer wants to return to New York.
(c) She has delayed her flight because she and Mitch had a fight.
(d) She has delayed her flight because she is writing her own proof to rival the one in the notebook.

2. What is the lighting cue at the end of the scene?
(a) Lights to half.
(b) Fade.
(c) Blackout.
(d) Lights to full.

3. Where does Robert joke that Chicago beer comes from?
(a) Lake Michigan.
(b) Underground.
(c) A secret brewery.
(d) New York City.

4. What does Catherine ask Robert to do, after he shows her his latest ideas in the notebook?
(a) She asks him to get the work published right away.
(b) She asks him to go back inside the house.
(c) She asks him to burn the notebook.
(d) She asks him leave and never come back.

5. Why is Hal skeptical about Catherine's claim?
(a) Robert told him all about the proof before his death.
(b) He thinks Catherine is just trying to impress him because they spend the night together.
(c) He has already written the proof, and wonders how she stole his idea.
(d) He thinks Robert may have written the groundbreaking proof, then later explained it to Catherine.

6. When does Act 2, Scene 4 take place?
(a) Immediately after Act 2, Scene 3.
(b) Three and a half years earlier than Act 2, Scene 3.
(c) Three and a half years later than Act 2, Scene 3.
(d) Immediately before Act 2, Scene 3.

7. When does the first scene on Act 2 take place?
(a) It takes place five years after Act 1
(b) It takes place an instant after the end of Act 1
(c) It takes place at the same time as Act 1
(d) It takes place five years before Act 1

8. Does Hal believe Catherine could have written the proof?
(a) No, Hal did the proof himself, and planned to give Robert the credit.
(b) Yes, Hal believes instantly that Catherine wrote the proof.
(c) No, the proof required very advanced mathematics, and Catherine only attended college for a few months.
(d) No, Hal knows that Claire wrote the proof, and plans to help her publish it.

9. Where will Catherine live while she is in school?
(a) At home.
(b) Evanston.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

10. What is the time period in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Four minutes after the events in Act 1.
(b) Four years earlier than the events in Act 1.
(c) The same time period as the events in Act 1.
(d) Four years after the events in Act 1.

11. What does Robert ask Catherine to do?
(a) He asks her to leave him alone.
(b) He asks her to work with him.
(c) He asks her to move back home.
(d) He asks her to stay out of his research.

12. Why is Catherine adamant that Robert could not have written the proof?
(a) Because the proof is incorrect and full of errors, and Robert never made errors.
(b) Because she knows that Claire wrote the proof and is keeping it a secret.
(c) Because, even during the good year when he was lucid, he was not able to do mathematics.
(d) Because, though he asked her to keep his secret, she knows that Hal wrote the proof.

13. What are the subjects of the proof?
(a) Warm months, cold months, and students in bookstores.
(b) The inverse relationships between love and hate.
(c) The speed of light.
(d) Atomic subatomic forces.

14. Why does Robert yell at Catherine?
(a) He wants her to go on a walk with him, but she will not.
(b) He wants her to read the proof aloud, and she does not want to.
(c) He does not understand her mathematics, and gets upset.
(d) She insulted and upset him.

15. How far behind in school is Catherine, according to Robert?
(a) At least two years.
(b) At least a month.
(c) At least two months.
(d) At least a year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Catherine missed to come back to the house?

2. Why doesn't Claire believe Catherine about the proof?

3. Where does Catherine reveal she is going to school?

4. Why does Claire trust Hal with the object?

5. What object does Claire give to Hal before he leaves?

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