The New York Observer

These questions regard last night’s episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and sample responses.

1. You serve on the board of trustees of your family’s corporation. When you enter a board meeting one day, you see that the CEO, your father, has sat at the head of the conference table and set up the rest of the chairs on one side. The three non-family members on the board immediately take the seats nearest your father. Do you: a) sit in the chair farthest from your father, b) drag a chair to the opposite side of the table, next to your father, c) drag a chair to the tail of the table across from him, d) wait to see what your sister does before you decide, or e) throw a glass of wine in the CEO’s face, piss on the table, and tell everyone to fuck off with their silly little game of musical chairs, because at least one person at the table has recently tried to kill you, all of the others have at least considered it, and anyway your father the CEO really only wants to talk about your brother, to see whom again for even one minute he would gladly stab you in the heart and dance on your bloody corpse? Read More