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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 talents do Heidi's friend's partner possess?

2. What decision does Susan announce at the women's group meeting in the church basement?

3. What does Scoop ask Heidi to do the evening of the party?

4. In what year does the prologue take place?

5. What song is playing in the background when Heidi and her friend arrive at the high school dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe at least two of the women who are present at the consciousness-raising discussion in the church basement.

2. Susan gives Heidi very specific instructions on behavior at the dance. What instructions does Susan give Heidi?

3. What are the societal expectations at the high school dance in the mid-1960's?

4. What does Scoop possess that Heidi wishes she had more of? What does she question?

5. Scoop Rosenbaum takes a sweeping view of Heidi's personality characteristics. Overall, what are Scoop's feelings towards Heidi? What does he admire?

6. How does Heidi react to Susan's instructions?

7. What is the background of Lisa, Scoop's new wife?

8. What is the purpose of this Prologue to Act 1?

9. What is Heidi and her friend Debbie protesting in 1974?

10. When Fran invites Heidi to share, what does Heidi do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the play opens, Heidi is discovering the roles of men and women in the mid-60's. How does the experience at the high school dance shape Heidi's point of view throughout the play?

Essay Topic 2

What are the similarities and differences between Lisa and Heidi?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Scoop is unable to make a serious commitment to anything, until the end of the play?

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