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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Saul and Lee decide to arrange at the end of the scene?
(a) They arrange a public screening.
(b) They arrange some flowers.
(c) They arrange a lunch date.
(d) They arrange a psychiatric appoint for Austin.

2. How would the money be doled out to the old man?
(a) The money would be doled out in the form of groceries.
(b) The money would be a lump sum, given all at once.
(c) The money would be in a trust, doled out in parcels.
(d) The money would be doled out dollar by dollar.

3. What is Austin supposed to steal, according to the brothers' bet?
(a) A woman.
(b) A car.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) A toaster.

4. What are Austin's true feeling about Lee's story?
(a) Austin thinks Lee's story is brilliant.
(b) Austin thinks Lee's story is terrible and cliched.
(c) Austin thinks Lee's story is original.
(d) Austin thinks Lee's story is a blockbuster hit.

5. Why does Lee rip the phone out of the wall?
(a) He could not find a pencil.
(b) He could not find his woman.
(c) He could not find a wrench.
(d) The operator hung up on him.

6. Where is Bakersfield?
(a) Kern County.
(b) Warrick County.
(c) Vanderburgh County.
(d) Orange County.

7. What have the brothers stolen?
(a) TVs.
(b) Money.
(c) Cars.
(d) Toasters.

8. Where does Austin want to learn to live?
(a) Mexico.
(b) The swamp land.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) The desert.

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

10. How did the old man react when Austin went to give him money?
(a) He played records and spit at him.
(b) He would not acknowledge Austin.
(c) He shot at him with a gun.
(d) He repented for his evil ways.

11. Why does Saul want Austin to write Lee's script?
(a) Saul wants Austin to write Lee's script because they are brothers.
(b) Saul wants Austin to write Lee's script because they have already paid him.
(c) Saul wants Austin to write Lee's script because he is the best writer in the world.
(d) Saul wants Austin to write Lee's script because he feels guilty.

12. What does Austin really think about Western stories?
(a) He thinks they have a certain niche.
(b) He thinks they are still extremely relevant.
(c) He thinks they are dried up, a dead issue.
(d) He thinks every story should be a romance.

13. Who has decided to be Lee's agent?
(a) Austin.
(b) Lee.
(c) Saul.
(d) Mom.

14. Where is Austin at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) He is on the phone with Saul, arguing.
(b) He is on the kitchen floor, drunk with a whiskey bottle.
(c) He is in the desert, living off the land.
(d) He is in the garage, working on the car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is actually supposed to write Lee's script?

2. With what part of the script does Lee want Austin's help?

3. Why does Saul believe Lee's script?

4. How close did Lee get the golf ball to the cup on the ninth hole?

5. From what illness does Lee and Austin's father suffer?

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