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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 has plagued the fields of the commune?
2. What is planted as the major crop on the land the immigrants have rented for their commune?
3. What wakes the commune in the middle of the night in April?
4. Who does Maryna finally get to perform with on stage?
5. What promise does Maryna make to Piotr when arrives in New York from months in California?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maryna choose to use as her audition material for Mr. Barton? How does the audition go? How does the author describe Marya's return to the stage? What do we learn about Maryna?
2. During his monologue, Edwin tells Marina why he suffers. What explanations does he give for his suffering? Would he rather not suffer?
3. Maryna admired Edwin Booth from the time of her childhood. After her performance with him, she joins him in his apartment. What does she learn about Booth in this chapter?
4. How does Maryna define utopia? How does it compare to a marriage in her mind?
5. What story does Ryszard write based on the events at the circus? What is his purpose for writing his story?
6. How does Booth treat Maryna in his monologue? Why does she suffer his verbal abuses?
7. How does Maryna compare her partners on the commune to actors?
8. Mr. Warnock uses a devise by which he fills the theatre. What does he do, and why? How does Maryna react to it? Does it work?
9. In Chapter Eight, Maryna talks about her "newly reconstituted family." Who are the members of the family, and what roles do each of these people play in Maryna's life? What does Maryna declare to Bogdan about her life with this family?
10. How does Maryna meet Miss Collingridge? When do they meet a second time? What happens after this second meeting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Maryna treat the men in her life, including her son, Piotr? Does she take any of them seriously? What examples from the book support her love for the men in her life? How does this contrast with the way men treat her?
Essay Topic 2
Ryszard thinks a great deal about class and privilege while on board the Germania on his way to America. Is the ship an analogy of a social system in America? Discuss this analogy and how accurate it is for America during the late nineteenth century as described in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Maryna spends time touring in England. How is she received in England? How does she react to the English? What is the gist of the conversation she has with Henry James at the dinner party given by Lady Wolsington?
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