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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following figures is not among the attendees Carr jokingly names for the Social Democrats for Civil War in Europe meeting?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Trotsky.
(c) Lenin's wife.
(d) A police spy.

2. According to Marx's theories, what must the Marxist embrace temporarily in order to eventually have a proletarian state?
(a) A bourgeois revolution.
(b) A dictatorship.
(c) The Germans.
(d) Anarchic violence.

3. To what object does Carr liken the First World War as he describes Switzerland at the end of his monologue?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A bull.
(c) A scale.
(d) A wheel.

4. Which character shushes the other characters onstage in the first scene of the play?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Cecily.
(c) Nadya.
(d) Tzara.

5. What character from the play has left his card with Bennett?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Tzara.
(d) Carr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose dropped writings does Joyce pick up in the first scene of the play?

2. What does Carr wish to match in choosing a red cravat?

3. What sound effect does Stoppard recommend to accompany time slips in the play?

4. Against what does Carr's historical winner bet sixpence?

5. What color does Carr recall Lenin's eyes being?

(see the answer key)

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