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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do all the officials appear at once?

2. Why is Chantal put on the balcony?

3. What story does the Envoy tell?

4. About what does the Judge worry?

5. How must Roger feel with Chantal's fate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Irma runs the whorehouse.

Part 1) Does she have real power? Why or why not?

Part 2) Does she desire power? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Irma change throughout the play? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The clients of the whorehouse are known as visitors.

Part 1) Why might be the reason for them being called visitors? Who are the clients the reader meets?

Part 2) Why might the author have created the characters the way he did?

Part 3) What are their fantasies? Why do they have these fantasies?

Essay Topic 3

Chantal was once a prostitute at the whorehouse.

Part 1) Why is she no longer working there?

Part 2) Is she successful at what she is doing now? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does she act as a symbol?

Part 4) What is her fate? What is the purpose of this?

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