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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money is Saul offering for the first draft?
(a) Sixty thousand dollars.
(b) Three hundred thousand dollars.
(c) Ten thousand dollars.
(d) One million dollars.

2. With what do the brothers toast?
(a) Soda.
(b) Beer.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Water.

3. Why does Lee want Austin to go outside?
(a) Lee needs more space in the room for his exercises.
(b) Lee is trying to concentrate.
(c) Austin smells.
(d) Austin is smoking in the house, which Mom does not like.

4. What does Austin think would be a great title?
(a) I'm trying to concentrate.
(b) Between me, the coyotes, and the crickets.
(c) We moved on from champagne.
(d) Desert Walker.

5. What does Lee keep getting tangled?
(a) His shoelaces.
(b) The typewriter ribbon.
(c) Austin's hair.
(d) The fringe on Mom's curtains.

6. From what illness does Lee and Austin's father suffer?
(a) Allergies.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Cancer.

7. What is Lee smashing with a golf club?
(a) The pots and pans.
(b) Austin.
(c) The car.
(d) The typewriter.

8. Where does Austin shop for groceries?
(a) Wal-Mart.
(b) Circle K.
(c) Rite Aid.
(d) Safeway.

9. How close did Lee get the golf ball to the cup on the ninth hole?
(a) Six feet.
(b) Two feet.
(c) Two yards.
(d) One mile.

10. What does Lee offer Austin if he steals a toaster without getting caught?
(a) His car keys.
(b) Money.
(c) More whiskey.
(d) Shared screen credit.

11. What have they neglected in Mom's house?
(a) Her parakeets.
(b) The dogs.
(c) Her plants.
(d) The mail.

12. What is the time of day at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) Morning.
(b) Evening.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Night.

13. To what does Saul attribute his sudden change of heart?
(a) To his gut instinct.
(b) To Austin's faulty ideas.
(c) To the network's wishes.
(d) To the superiority of Lee's script.

14. How did he lose his false teeth?
(a) He threw them out the window of a car.
(b) He threw them out with the bottles one day.
(c) He left them in a Chop Suey bag in a bar.
(d) A coyote attacked him and took them.

15. What deal do the brothers strike up?
(a) Lee will clean the house for Mom if Austin captures a coyote.
(b) Austin will find the old man's teeth if Lee rids the house of liquor.
(c) Austin will write the screenplay if Lee allows him to come and live in the desert.
(d) Lee will kidnap Saul for Austin if he writes the original screenplay.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Saul make a firm commitment to Lee's project?

2. What is the time of day at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 5?

3. Why has Saul given Lee a gift?

4. Where is Bakersfield?

5. Why does Austin not want to go outside?

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