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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 has Imam Fareed been arrested for?

2. What is Amir concerned about, in the depiction of his testimony in support of Imam Fareed?

3. What city is Disgraced set in?

4. How long has Imam Fareed been in prison, by the end of Scene One?

5. Why does Abe ask whether he should come back, when he arrives at Amir and Emily’s apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emily appropriate Islamic art?

2. How has Emily’s family handled her choice of men?

3. What is Amir’s relationship with the painting his wife’s painting is based on?

4. What is Amir’s relationship with Mort like?

5. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?

6. What is the importance of the statue of Siva on the mantelpiece?

7. What do we learn about Amir and Emily’s relationship when Emily tells Amir that she happens to know he “likes it a little fucked up,” meaning that there is something odd about painting him after a painting of a slave (9)?

8. How has Isaac’s mind recently changed about Emily’s work, as seen in Scene 2?

9. How does Scene Two build on the resolution of Scene One, where Amir said that he would think about speaking for Imam Fareed?

10. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you rewrite Disgraced, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What parts of the play would you preserve? What parts would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Disgraced. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Disgraced. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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