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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Song realize Gallimard wants her to do?
2. What does Chin think about actors?
3. How much time passes between the year Gallimard is fired from the embassy and the year Song travels to France to live with him?
4. What does Chin want Song to find out?
5. What is the last thing that Helga says to Gallimard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Each woman in Hwang's story has a distinctive role to play and her own interpretation of the feminist point of view.
1. Describe in turn the women of the play (specifically, Song, Helga, Chin, Renee). What is their role in the life of the play?
2. How does each woman express their sexuality in the play? What are their individual strengths? Their weaknesses? How do those qualities affect their relationships with other characters?
3. How do these women's personalities compare to each other? How do their lives as women differ?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the climactic encounter between Gallimard and Song when he asks to see her naked for the first time.
1. When Gallimard leaves the reception where he had his encounter with Toulon, what is he feeling? What is the catalyst for his emotions?
2. What are the reasons Gallimard gives for wanting to strip Song? How does she react? Why?
3. How does Song talk Gallimard out of seeing her naked? What is at stake for her?
4. How is this moment pivotal in the life of the play and the relationship between Gallimard and Song? How do his feelings for her change?
Essay Topic 3
Song creates an involved web of lies to trap Gallimard. Song portrays little regard for the lives of others.
1. What are Song's major characteristics? How do those characteristics develop and change as the plot goes on?
2. What are some of the tactics Song uses to get what she wants? How do her needs change?
3. What are Song's motives behind her entrapment of Gallimard? Personal? Political? Do her ethics ever conflict with her goals?
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