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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 do homosexuals lack, according to Roy?
2. According to Louis in Act 3, Scene 7, what do he and Joe have in common?
3. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?
4. In what city does Roy believe he met Mormons?
5. Whom does Louis imply is gay in Act 2, Scene 7?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Joe's interpretation of Jacob and the Angel.
2. How does Harper come to realize she is not in the Antarctic in Act 1, Scene 2?
3. How has Prior Walter's illness progressed over the course of Angels in America?
4. Why is Joe Pitt confused by Louis' invitation to come home with him?
5. How do Prior and Hannah meet the second time?
6. What message does Sarah Ironson give Prior Walter Act 5, Scene 6?
7. What does Prior tell the Continental Principalities regarding human progress in Act 5, Scene 5?
8. How does Mr. Lies explain Harper Pitt's ill sense of ease?
9. How does Prior respond to the approach of the Angel in Act 3, Scene 7?
10. What does Prior determine about Louis in Act 2, Scene 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A central theme of Angels in America is migration. Write an essay on one of the following prompts regarding this theme:
1.) The play opens with a eulogy for Sarah Ironson delivered by Rabbi Chemelwitz. The subject of the eulogy is the migration immigrants like Sarah took, carrying their culture with them. Compare in an essay the sentiments Chemelwitz espouses with the sentiments Louis later states in his first scene with Belize. What do they say about immigrant populations? About the spiritual past of America?
2.) When the Angel finally appears to Prior at the end of Millennium Approaches, she carries with her a message from Heaven. Write an essay about this message and its relation to the theme of migration. How does Prior's decision to renounce his calling reflect Kushner's thoughts on migration?
3.) By the end of the play, two characters have found deep fulfillment by traveling far from their long-time home: Hannah and Harper. Write an essay comparing these two women's journeys. What drives them from home? What do they hope to find on the other side?
Essay Topic 2
Angels in America is a play about a world polluted by selfish acts and fear. In this diseased America, two figures emerge as healers and caretakers willing to sacrifice for others in need: Write an essay about these two characters.
Part 1) How does the character of Belize serve as a healing force in the darkest reaches of the play? Examine his relationships with Prior, Louis, and Roy Cohn to determine his beliefs regarding empathy and truth.
Part 2) How does the character of Hannah progress from a caricature to a fully developed and evolving person in the play? Who does she help over the course of Perestroika, and how does she defy the expectations of those around her?
Part 3) Write a summation regarding Hannah and Belize. What do these figures say about Kushner's sense of benevolence and truth in modern-day America?
Essay Topic 3
The play Angels in America centers on two men battling the ravages of AIDS: Prior Walter and Roy Cohn. As the health of both men deteriorates, both become immersed in a supernatural world. How do the different experiences of Prior and Roy reflect two different attitudes towards death? AIDS? Companionship? In an essay, use these men's relationship to death and disease to delineate their different worldviews.
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