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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Yang announce to the guests?

2. What does Yang Sun remind Shen Te of?

3. What item of Shui Ta's clothing does Mrs. Shin discover among the clothes?

4. Who has become ill?

5. What do Yang Sun and Shen Te drink to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Shen Te's character to the person she is at the beginning of the play to the person she is at the end.

1. What does Shen Te hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2. What events change Shen Te's ideas about life?

3. How has Shen Te's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

How does Brecht express religion as foolish? How does this theme link to the 1930s and Brecht's Marxist beliefs?

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