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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Benare describe Samant's character in Act One?
(a) She forgets his name.
(b) She calls him a buffoon.
(c) She says he is a very pure and good person.
(d) She calls him a baby.

2. What does Benare say the mock trial that day will be about?
(a) Two parents who treat their foster child like a slave.
(b) A group of educators who bully a coworker out of jealousy.
(c) A man who prides himself on his book learning.
(d) A case against President Johnson for producing atomic weapons.

3. How does Benare react to her charge?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She is stunned.
(c) She leaves the room.
(d) She is angry.

4. What is Karnik's job?
(a) He is an experimental theatre actor.
(b) He is a social worker.
(c) He is an Intellectual.
(d) He is a scientist.

5. What role do the characters argue about in Act One?
(a) The accused.
(b) The lawyers.
(c) The fourth witness.
(d) The judge.

6. About what is the song that Benare sings in English in Act one?
(a) A parrot, a sparrow, and a crow.
(b) Waves crashing on a shore.
(c) An inscription she wrote on the first page of every book.
(d) A man who wants to marry her.

7. Why does Rokde say Rawte is missing, too, in Act One?
(a) He is sick with flu.
(b) He is teaching late at the university.
(c) He missed the train.
(d) He is buying garlands for his wife's hair.

8. What books does Sukhatme say they have for the oath-taking in the mock trial?
(a) The Bible and the Bhagavad Gita.
(b) The Bible and the Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) The Bhagavad Gita and the Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The Bible and the Koran.

9. What is Ponkshe's day job?
(a) He works as a clerk in the Central Telegraph Office.
(b) He is an Intellectual.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a scientist.

10. How does Samant respond to Benare's calling him "lovely"?
(a) He is embarrassed.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is flattered.
(d) He is non-responsive.

11. Who do the characters decide should play the accused?
(a) Benare.
(b) Damle.
(c) Rokde.
(d) Samant.

12. What do Samant and Benare do to surprise the others in Act one?
(a) Show them the green cloth sparrow.
(b) A magic trick.
(c) Sing songs.
(d) Hide and jump out.

13. Who is the first character to enter in the play?
(a) Kashikar.
(b) Benare.
(c) Samant.
(d) Sukhatme.

14. What does Benare say, in Act One, about her teaching?
(a) She does it for the money.
(b) She has difficult students.
(c) No one can find fault with it.
(d) It is very hard work.

15. How does Benare react when Ponkshe tells her she has been accused?
(a) She cries.
(b) She leaves the room.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She stiffens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Benare like about the Kashikars?

2. What does Samant offer Benare in Act One?

3. What does Benare lie about, in Act One?

4. What does Sukhatme propose the characters do to pass the time in Act One?

5. What is the song Benare is singing when she returns from the bathroom about?

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