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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 incentive does Johansson name as the one that drives the Old Man?
2. Who shows the Girl the Student's picture in the newspaper?
3. Which of the following traits does NOT characterize the Old Man?
4. What does the Old Man offer to the Student, which the Student promptly accepts?
5. What is the Old Man reading the first time the audience sees him onstage?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Strindberg use physicality to illustrate the tyranny present within the Old Man's character?
2. From the Student's perspective, what does the house at the center of the play symbolize within Act I?
3. What is the relationship among the Colonel, the Girl, and the statue?
4. What paradoxical statement does Johansson make about the link between the Old Man and trust?
5. Which character in the play is characterized as having been born on a Sunday and why is this detail significant?
6. Provide evidence for the conclusion that the Student believes at least part of the Old Man's claim about the Student's father.
7. What claim does the Old Man make about altruism and what does the claim demonstrate about his character?
8. How does the Student respond to the Old Man's claims about the supposed transgressions committed by the Student's father?
9. What reaction by the Milkmaid causes the Student to become surprised at the beginning of the play and why?
10. What is the first indication of menace within the Old Man's interactions with the Student?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within The Ghost Sonata.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Strindberg's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of The Ghost Sonata.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay proving that The Ghost Sonata is a work of Expressionism, Surrealism, Absurdism, or some combination.
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