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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 this play about?

2. From whom does Jackie try to enlist some help?

3. What about the hotel has diminished?

4. What does the Girl leave for the day desk clerk?

5. What has the hotel seen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Millie and the Girl react to Jackie's story?

2. With whom does Suzy arrive? How does Mr. Katz feel about this guest?

3. What does the Girl suggest to Paul about his grandfather?

4. What does Paul inquire of Mrs. Oxenham?

5. What does the Girl inquire about the Hotel Baltimore?

6. How does the Girl try to help Paul?

7. Describe the Hotel Baltimore.

8. How does Suzy leave?

9. What is going on on the other side of the room?

10. About what does April complain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Three of the characters are prostitutes.

Part 1) Describe these characters.

Part 2) Why might be the reason for the playwright making them prostitutes?

Part 3) Do these prostitutes act how you would expect a prostitute to act? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

This play is one that has no dominant plot line, just a series of personal dramas by each of the residents of the hotel.

Part 1) Name two of the personal dramas.

Part 2) How do they help the play progress?

Part 3) Why has the playwright chosen to use personal dramas rather than a dominant plot line?

Essay Topic 3

Bill suggests that the Girl distribute the mail in the residents' mailboxes.

Part 1) What is in the mail for all the residents?

Part 2) What does this mail foreshadow?

Part 3) How is the mood of the play affected by this mail? Why?

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