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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is burning in the bowl?
(a) The script.
(b) Austin's shoes.
(c) A coyote.
(d) The old man's teeth.

2. What does Austin swallow every day driving into the city?
(a) His keys.
(b) Smog.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Disappointment.

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

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

5. What does Lee call his new job?
(a) Legitimate.
(b) Corny.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Money.

6. Whom does Lee want to help with the script money?
(a) Lee wants to help their mother.
(b) Lee wants to help Austin's wife.
(c) Lee wants to help their father.
(d) Lee wants to help his wife.

7. Why did Austin only steal the toasters?
(a) Stealing a toaster is not a criminal offense.
(b) He bought too much bread at the store because it was on sale.
(c) Lee specifically challenged him for toasters; nothing else.
(d) He truly adores and loves toasters.

8. What does Austin ask for from Lee as payment, if he wins the bet?
(a) More whiskey.
(b) Rattlesnake bones.
(c) Screen credit.
(d) Money.

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

10. Why has Saul given Lee a gift?
(a) It is Lee's bithday.
(b) The gift is an advance for his script.
(c) Saul just really, really likes him.
(d) Saul got the gift from someone else and did not want it.

11. Where does Austin want to drive at the end of the scene?
(a) He wants to drive to Indiana.
(b) He wants to drive to Canada.
(c) He wants to drive to the desert.
(d) He wants to drive to the mountains.

12. How phony does Austin think is Lee's script?
(a) As phony as the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
(b) As phony as Hoppalong Cassidy.
(c) As phony as the Battle of Little Bighorn.
(d) As phony as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

13. Why does Saul believe Lee's script?
(a) He believes the chase scenes.
(b) He believes in magic.
(c) He believes Austin's script is terrible.
(d) He believes Lee is speaking from experience.

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

15. What does Lee claim he will do if Austin helps him?
(a) Lee will buy gifts.
(b) Lee will disappear.
(c) Lee will kill Saul.
(d) Lee will steal a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Austin want to learn to live?

2. Why does Saul want Austin to write Lee's script?

3. With what do the brothers toast?

4. What do the brothers realize about what Saul has told them regarding their scripts?

5. What is the time of day at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 6?

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