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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. According to Fonsia, the staff never offers her 'her' medicine, but instead patronizingly does what?
2. What is the dietitian's name?
3. What does Fonsia use the pillow for?
4. In Act 1, Scene 2, Weller explains how he started enjoying playing gin earlier in life. What context did he play in?
5. How many cards are dealt to the dealer in the gin game?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Fonsia win the last hand of Act 1, Scene 1, and what might this foreshadow?
2. What does the moment of faintness that Fonsia suffers in Act 1, Scene 2 reveal about the two characters?
3. In Act 1, Scene 2, Weller states that "half of them are catatonic... and... the ones who do talk make you appreciate the ones who don't." Who is the quote in regards to, and what is it about the talking that bothers both characters?
4. What does the attire of the two characters suggest about their respective attitudes in Act 1, Scene 1?
5. What do the costumes of the two characters at the opening of Act 1, Scene 2 suggest?
6. How would you characterize the questions Weller makes to Fonsia, and how do they propel the first scene of the play?
7. What do you think is Weller's opinion of the other residents of the home after reading Act 1, Scene 1?
8. In Act 1, Scene 1, what conditions find the two characters at the home?
9. What does Gladys Mayes represent in the play?
10. In what way, according to Weller, does the Home promote theft of its residents by the staff?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are Weller and Fonsia's ex-spouses similar in nature? How are they different from her father as she remembers him? Is her son the victim of preconceived notions of hers?
Essay Topic 2
Why is Weller so upset about being made a model retiree by the family of Gladys Mayes? How does this relate to him disguising his illness, and how does it contribute to his contempt of the staff and residents of the Home?
Essay Topic 3
How are the two characters hypocritical in the play? What does this reveal about them?
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