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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. How is Vinnie's personality best described?

2. What does Felix start to do at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. What is Oscar's wife's name?

4. Why do the other players make fun of Vinnie in the first scene?

5. What are the other poker players worried Felix does?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Speed suggest that Felix may be in the first scene, and why is this humorous?

2. Why doesn't Oscar and his friends want Felix to go to the bathroom alone, and why is this humorous?

3. What are each of the Pigeon sisters' marriages like, and why do they end?

4. Why does Oscar's wife leave him?

5. Why does Murray like the fact that Felix lives with Oscar?

6. Describe the friends with whom Oscar plays poker.

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

8. When Felix arrives at the first poker game, what does he admit to doing, and how is the situation resolved?

9. What does Oscar demand that Felix does right before leaves?

10. What does Murray say as he leaves the second poker game, and why is this ironic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain in detail why it is important to study a performance of a play in addition to reading it in class.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the play, analyze how Oscar and Felix develop as characters throughout the play.

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