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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 Amir say his relationship with Mort is like?
2. Why does it bother Abe to be called by the name Amir insists on calling him?
3. How does the text Amir reads from in Scene Two characterize the group of attorneys surrounding Imam Fareed?
4. What kind of apartment do Amir and Emily live in?
5. How does Emily characterize Amir’s position on the imam?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of the statue of Siva on the mantelpiece?
2. What was the imam Abe is talking about arrested for?
3. How has Emily’s family handled her choice of men?
4. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?
5. What do we learn about Emily when Amir tells her that she should have her black Spanish boyfriend sit for her?
6. What part of the news article about Amir is Amir angry about?
7. What does Abe mean when he says that Amir had to go “the other way” for a while (15)?
8. What is the significance of the stage direction indicating that Amir speaks with a flawless accent?
9. What does Emily mean when she invokes Goldman Sachs in the discussion about the imam?
10. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the title of Disgraced. How is it used in the text? How does it apply within the context of its use? How else does it apply to the other characters?
Essay Topic 2
While talking about Islam and her art, Emily expresses the sentiment that people spend too much time focused on optics, and have “forgotten to look at things for what they really are” (31). Is this the closest thing the play gives us, by way of a rule for living or seeing? Is the tragedy of the play that none of the characters can live up to Emily’s vision? Or is it that even Emily’s pronouncement is insufficient, as she herself says, when she says later that she was naïve?
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of Disgraced. What is this play’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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