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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 is Yank's nickname for Paddy?

2. What does Long call Mildred?

3. What does Yank say is the ship's middle name?

4. What animal does O'Neill compare Paddy's face to?

5. What kind of metal does Yank say he is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yank react when Mildred leaves the engine room?

2. Why does Yank get angry when a woman looks at the monkey fur coat in the shop?

3. How does Yank respond to Paddy's speech about being trapped?

4. How do the crowd act when they exit the church?

5. What does the article accuse the IWW of trying to do?

6. How does Mildred react to Yank's rage?

7. Describe the setting in scene four.

8. How does Yank show his rage at the end of the fourth scene?

9. Why is the secretary suspicious of Yank's behavior?

10. Why does Long believe the engineers were showing Mildred the engine room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the capitalist class oppress the working classes? How have the working classes made life better for themselves over the centuries? In what way was communism a reaction against working class oppression?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the differences between a play and a book in terms of the following:

1. Language.

2. Character.

3. Structure.

4. Setting.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion.

Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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