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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?
(a) A person about whom the two Englishmen are making disparaging remarks.
(b) The elder of the two Englishmen.
(c) The director of a play in which the two Englishmen are acting.
(d) The younger of the two Englishmen.

2. What is Sir Ambrose's profession?
(a) Acting.
(b) Stockbroker.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Marketing.

3. What is poorly received by the studio heads?
(a) The biography that Sir Francis writes.
(b) A screen-play about a pet coyote.
(c) A screen-play about a large woman.
(d) The new anti-communist guidelines.

4. What do some English expatriates talk about in the last scene?
(a) Their soccer club.
(b) Their cricket club.
(c) A new woman on the set.
(d) A shake up in the studio.

5. What is one natural scene described in Chapter 1?
(a) The farms.
(b) The snow on the mountains.
(c) The desert.
(d) The foothills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one man say Sir Francis is fired?

2. Whose nationality is changed from Spanish to Celtic?

3. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?

4. At one time, what was Sir Francis the only one of in Hollywood?

5. Who is in Sir Francis' office when he arrives at the studio?

(see the answer key)

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