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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the villain of Lee's story pulling behind his truck?

2. What is Lee's reaction when Austin suggests he sleep?

3. What is one of Lee's main character's realizations?

4. At what kind of table is Lee seated?

5. What beverage does Austin make?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Austin leave the situation with Saul?

2. What does Austin use as a reference when Lee asks him the time?

3. How does Lee manipulate Austin into continuing to write the screenplay?

4. Does Austin earn Lee's respect by stealing the toasters?

5. Does Lee understand the difference between an outline and a first draft? Why/why not?

6. Why is Lee so interested in a true-to-life modern Western?

7. Why does Saul feel Austin is the right person to write Lee's screenplay?

8. What is Lee carrying when he enters the scene, and where did he presumably get the item?

9. How does Lee smoothly insert himself into the conversation?

10. What is Lee's example of a "great western"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the sound effects play into the story? How do they affect each brother? Are coyotes symbolic of one brother, the other, or both? What about crickets?

Essay Topic 2

Austin physically assaults Lee in the end to get what he wants. While Lee threatened to assault Austin throughout the play, he never actually did. How does this represent a turning point for Austin? For the brothers' relationship? How will the play end after the lights go down? Will the brothers reconcile? Will there be a fight? Will they each survive?

Essay Topic 3

Saul lost a bet, and thus Austin's story was moot and Lee's story moved forward. How does gambling factor into the lives of both brothers? Do they have different ideas of what it is to gamble? Discuss the toasters later in the play.

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