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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 right hand side of the story?

2. What do most of Oscar's charges represent?

3. What does Christina insist about the movie's hero?

4. For what does Christina demand Sam take responsibility?

5. What does Oscar do when the battery in his wheelchair dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lily's father unable to collect his son's insurance money?

2. What does Oscar plan to do with his play?

3. What does Christina do about Oscar's legal bills? Why does she do this?

4. What are Oscar's plans for his play?

5. How does Christina react when a real estate woman shows up at the house?

6. What does Jerry think about religion?

7. Why do Christina and Lily find Oscar staring blankly in the library?

8. What does Oscar do when he is served a subpoena? What does Christina think about this?

9. What are Lily, Harry, and Oscar watching?

10. What does Jerry think about Oscar's characters, Kane and Bagby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a comparison between the dialogue of plays to action in films.

Part 1) Describe dialogue in the play. Describe action in the film.

Part 2) How are dialogue and action compared? Why are they compared?

Part 3) How is this comparison revealed when Oscar sees the movie? What are his thoughts on dialogue in a play and action in a film? Why does he feel this way?

Essay Topic 2

Lily snaps.

Part 1) What stress does Lily have in her life? Why does she snap?

Part 2) How do others deal with her at this point? Why? What is the connection with her snapping to what is going on in the story?

Part 3) What does this reveal about Lily's personality? What are your thoughts and opinion of Lily? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The family myth is destroyed.

Part 1) What is the family myth? How is it destroyed? How are the various characters affected by this?

Part 2) How different would the story have been if this myth had been discovered earlier in the story?

Part 3) How has this discover affected you as the reader? Why?

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