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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 the name that August refers to the site as?
2. What does Delia believe about the human eye from looking at charts as a child?
3. Who enters the darkness with a flashlight in the end of Act 1 Part 2?
4. Delia claims in Act 1 to have a terror of what?
5. What activity is Jean doing in Act 1 Part 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the term which refers to the use of projections in the play. What effect does this theatrical device serve?
2. How does August feel about "aesthetics?" Why?
3. How does the word "excavation" relate literally and figuratively in the play? What is being excavated in both senses of the word?
4. Who wrote the poem that Dan recites in Act 1? What significance is the poem to the play?
5. Who is suspiciously holding the flashlight in the blackout at the end of Act 1? Why?
6. What is the overall theme of The Mound Builders? How is this theme portrayed?
7. Is the mask that was discovered made of gold? Why does August state that it is?
8. How does Dan react to Delia's comment in Act 2 that everyone vanishes "without a trace?"
9. 'If you save a man from drowning, you're responsible for him the rest of his life.' Who quotes this proverb in the play? In regards to whom?
10. What does August say blinds a man "to the passing moon?" What does he mean?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the characteristics of Jean and Delia. How do they relate to each other and to other characters throughout the play? How are their appearances similar or different? Compare their outlooks on life, their philosophies and religious beliefs. What other characters in the play do they most reflect?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the roles of women and men in The Mound Builders. What does Delia say regarding women versus men? How do the legacies of the women in the play differ from the legacies of the male characters? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the web of inter-tangled relationships in The Mound Builders. How do these relationships relate to one another? How does the unraveling of truth affect the characters involved?
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