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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 does The Recruiting Officer end?

2. In Scene 3, how many convicts are found guilty of stealing from the colony's stores?

3. What is Captain Collins going to write about?

4. Who comes and sits with Dabby and Mary in Act One: Scene 8?

5. How old is the woman who stole a biscuit from Robert Sideway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wisehammer say about the word country?

2. How did Harry Brewer save a woman whom he calls Duckling?

3. What do Hary and Duckling see of the town when they go rowing in Act One: Scene 7?

4. Where does Act One: Scene 1, take place?

5. What does the Reverend Johnson say about producting the play?

6. How is it discovered that Liz Morden cannot read?

7. How does an aborigine describe the arrival of the first convict fleet in Botany Bay on January 20, 1788?

8. What does Duckling want from Harry in Act One: Scene 7?

9. What are Mary Brenham and John Wisehammer doing at the beginning of Act One: Scene 10?

10. What does Sideway complain about during the rehearsal in Act One: Scene 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The aborigine in the play is not sure what to think of the colonists. Why is the aborigine not sure what to think of the colonists? How does he relate the colonists to dreams? Why does he decide that the colonists are not a dream?

Essay Topic 2

Convicts were transported to Australia to serve their time. For what type of crimes were convicts in the play hanged or sentenced to exile? Were the convicts given fair trials?

Essay Topic 3

Some officers feel that putting on a play is a waste of time. What are the pros and cons of performing the play?

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