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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lee want to watch on the TV?
(a) The nightly news.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Soap operas.
(d) Amateur boxing.

2. How far from the border is Lee's character, according to Lee?
(a) He is ten miles from the border.
(b) He is fifty miles from the border.
(c) He is nowhere near the border.
(d) He is right on top of the border.

3. How long with Austin let Lee stay at the house?
(a) Lee can stay as long as Austin is there.
(b) Lee can stay indefinently.
(c) Lee can stay for two days.
(d) Lee can stay for one night only.

4. What would Lee get with the money from his screenplay?
(a) A nice guitar.
(b) An island.
(c) A ranch.
(d) A fancy car.

5. What task does Lee give Austin during the game?
(a) Caddie.
(b) Umpire.
(c) Runner.
(d) Bat boy.

6. What kind of story does Lee have for Saul?
(a) An art film set in France.
(b) A Renaissance romance.
(c) A western.
(d) A thriller.

7. What, according to Lee, is Austin paid to do?
(a) Austin is paid to drive on the freeway.
(b) Austin is paid to be worthless.
(c) Austin is paid to do backbreaking work.
(d) Austin is paid to sit around and dream.

8. What does Lee threaten to do if Austin does finish the script?
(a) Lee threatens to break Austin's typewriter.
(b) Lee threatens to kill Austin's wife.
(c) Lee threatens to steal Austin's car.
(d) Lee threatens to break all of Mom's things.

9. What is the villain of Lee's story pulling behind his truck?
(a) He is pulling his boat.
(b) He is pulling his house.
(c) He is pulling a gooseneck cattle trailer.
(d) He is pulling his victims along.

10. How are Lee and Austin related?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are father and son.
(d) They are brothers-in-law.

11. Why does Saul give Lee a read-through for the script?
(a) He thinks the story is genius already.
(b) Lee has threatened to hit him.
(c) He is always looking for new material.
(d) He owes Austin a favor.

12. Where did Lee go the night before?
(a) He went to Las Vegas.
(b) He went to visit the old man.
(c) He went up to the foothills.
(d) He went to Alaska.

13. What does Lee claim he can tell by the sound of crickets?
(a) His future.
(b) The temperature.
(c) The time of day.
(d) The day of the year.

14. What does Lee throw at the window?
(a) He throws cans of beer.
(b) He throws Austin's typewriter.
(c) He throws a copper pot.
(d) He throws Mom's flower pot.

15. Why did Lee stop fooling around with art?
(a) He thinks there is no future in art.
(b) He got amnesia and could not remember anything.
(c) He had one bad review and it ruined him.
(d) He has painful memories and can never again pick up a pen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lee accuse of Austin?

2. On what does the length of Lee's stay depend?

3. What would Austin miss in the desert?

4. What does Lee think about the crickets?

5. How did Austin always picture Lee?

(see the answer keys)

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