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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. Where did Isa's mother die?

2. Who announces that the pageant is over?

3. What does the Reverend make of the pageant?

4. What does the narrator say Giles and Isa will do before they sleep?

5. What makes Isa angry about Giles when she sees him in the barn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Budge play in the pageant, and what does he explain to the audience?

2. What does Reverend Streatfield ask the audience for at the end of the pageant? What interrupts him?

3. When Mrs. Swithin suggests thanking Miss La Trobe after the pageant is over, what does Mr. Oliver explain?

4. What do Isa, William and Giles think about after "A Picnic Party" ends?

5. What is the premise of "Where There's a Will, There's A Way"?

6. What does the second scene of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" depict?

7. What does Giles imagine himself as after "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" ended, and what did he take as the moral of the story?

8. What does the audience talk about while they wait for the next scene of the pageant to commence?

9. What makes Isa angry when she sees Giles in the barn?

10. How does "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" end?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the final scene of the pageant in the novel "Between the Acts". Describe the final scene. Why is this scene considered the climax? What happens during this scene? How does the audience react?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the modernist elements found in "Between the Acts." What is modernism? What are some elements of modernism in the novel? What are some examples of modernism in the pageant? How does the audience react to these examples?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the characters of the novel, particularly the principle characters. Who are the principle characters, and why? What conflicts are they dealing with? Describe the relationships between these characters.

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