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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. Two of Hal's past adventures include parachuting out of balloons and ____________________.

2. Of whom does Flo strongly disapprove?

3. What did the people in Hollywood tell Hal he would have to do to be on camera?

4. What is Rosemary Snyder's profession?

5. Why does Rosemary lash out at Hal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author use the technique of foreshadowing at the end of Act 1?

2. What is the setting for the play?

3. How are Rosemary's true feelings about men in stark contrast to her behavior?

4. Which two characters enter the scene after Howard and Rosemary exit?

5. What is different about Rosemary's behavior with Hal when she begs him to marry her?

6. Who is Rosemary and what is her outward opinion of men?

7. What are Flo's concerns about Millie this afternoon?

8. Explain the metaphor that the Picasso pictures have in Millie's life.

9. How does Howard evade the marriage question at least temporarily?

10. Why is Flo obsessed with wanting Madge to marry Alan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of married women in the 1950s. Conversely, what is the role of unmarried women in the 1950s? What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? Do they have any freedoms that twenty-first century women do not have?

Essay Topic 2

Alcohol takes on an almost human persona in this story. What is this literary technique called? Cite examples that support this position.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the overall setting for the play. Why does Inge use the setting he does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

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