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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 does Meg come into the scene carrying in Act 1, Part 2?

2. What noise is heard offstage at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?

3. Why does Stanley suddenly grab McCann's arm in Act 2, Part 1?

4. What does Petey leave the house without doing that leaves Meg aghast in Act 1, Part 1?

5. What does Meg ask Stanley to join her shopping for ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Petey and Goldberg's conversation regarding Stanley in Act 3, Part 1?

2. Describe Meg's actions when she begins drinking.

3. What is the nature of McCann and Stanley's interaction in Act 2, Part 1?

4. What is the nature of Goldberg's compliments to Meg at the beginning of Act 2, Part 3?

5. How does Goldberg act when Lulu enters the room in Act 2, Part 3?

6. What is the nature of McCann and Goldberg's interrogation of Stanley?

7. What is the nature of the conversation between McCann, Goldberg, and Stanley regarding the "necessary and possible"?

8. What is the nature of McCann and Goldberg's conversation regarding their job at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?

9. What is the nature of McCann and Stanley's conversation when the former will not allow Stanley to leave?

10. What does Meg say about breakfast at the beginning of Act 3, Part 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of tension in the play. In what way was the author able to create a sense of tension between the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's portrayal of reality in the play. In what way did the characters try and escape their reality?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the nature of no person or action being what it seems in the play. What message might the author have been trying to get across by doing this?

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