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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. Why is Roy upset with Speed in the first scene?

2. What do the other poker players do as they leave Oscar's apartment?

3. Why do the poker players have trouble playing at the beginning of the play?

4. How does Felix drop clues that all is not right?

5. How is Felix's crisis from earlier in the day averted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the poker players decide to do when Felix arrives in the first scene, and why?

2. What happens when Felix tries to make conversation with the Pigeon sisters?

3. How is Gwendolyn different from Cecily?

4. Why do you think the poker players banter back and forth so much during the first poker game?

5. When the Murray, Speed, Vinnie, and Roy leave the first poker game, what do they say, and how does Oscar reassure them?

6. How does Felix change the nature of the poker game the second time they play?

7. Why does Oscar's wife leave him?

8. Why is Felix upset when Oscar arrives the night of their date with the Pigeon sisters?

9. Describe the friends with whom Oscar plays poker.

10. What are the poker players generally trying to do when Felix arrives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how both Felix and Oscar change as characters throughout the play.

Essay Topic 2

Provide a detailed analysis of how The Odd Couple influences modern American drama.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the basic elements of a plot, and give detailed examples of those elements from The Odd Couple.

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