5. What song from Madame Butterfly underscores the scene in which Gallimard is reading Song's letters?
(a) "Butterfly's Death."
(b) "Love Duet"
(c) "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General."
(d) "The Whole World Over."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an important fact that Toulon wants Gallimard to know about their jobs at the embassy?

2. What is different about the night that occurs in Scene 10?

3. How does Gallimard describe his meetings with Song after her weekly performances?

4. What did Gallimard believe Song was doing before they part ways at the end of Scene 8?

5. What does Gallimard say about Song's performance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Manuel Toulon.

2. During Act 2, Scene 2, Song explains that although China has ruled the world in the past, it would be much more exciting to rule the contemporary world. What does this foreshadow?

3. Is it ever clear if Gallimard knew Song was a man?

4. How has Helga's opinion on China changed when she and Gallimard return to France?

5. How do the actions within the play prove Song's theory that all a man wants from a woman is to submit, and that will result in him recanting his demands?

6. Why does Song speak in Italian at the end of Act 1?

7. How does Gallimard look at his marriage? Who did he marry? What did he marry for?

8. What does Gallimard mean when he says he has become a celebrity?

9. How does the character of Comrade Chin view Song's actions for the government?

10. In the plot of the opera Madame Butterfly, what is the relationship between Pinkerton and Sharpless? How does that story relate to Gallimard?

(see the answer keys)

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