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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the very end of the second act, where are Amanda and Elyot?
(a) Elyot has left the flat, leaving Amanda alone.
(b) Amanda is in her room, while Elyot is on the sofa.
(c) Amanda and Elyot are wrestling on the floor.
(d) They have retreated into seperate bedrooms.

2. During their final fight, what does Amanda say she'd rather do than marry Elyot?
(a) Be alone the rest of her life.
(b) Stay with Victor.
(c) Die in torment.
(d) Run away to another country.

3. According to Elyot, what will fade, along with his and Amanda's passion?
(a) Their apathy towards society.
(b) Their love for each other.
(c) Their urge to bicker.
(d) Their desire to always be flippant.

4. What happens in the final fight that forces Elyot to try to call "Sollocks?"
(a) Elyot has ruined Amanda's record.
(b) Elyot admits to having an affair while they were married.
(c) Amanda slaps Elyot.
(d) Amanda tries to throw Elyot out of her apartment.

5. What reason is given for the first time Elyot struck Amanda during their marriage?
(a) Amanda struck Elyot first.
(b) Amanda tries to leave Elyot.
(c) Elyot caught Amanda with an admirer.
(d) Amanda's curling irons burned a hole in Elyot's new dressing gown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amanda fear about Sibyl?

2. Who says, "Flippancy brings out the acid in their damned sweetness and light."

3. What is Amanda wearing in Act II?

4. What does Elyot angrily say that Amanda lacks?

5. Why does Elyot tell Amanda to turn the gramophone off?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does it seem that Elyot and Amanda are able to forgive each other silently during their time-outs?

2. What two things does Elyot do that annoy Amanda that leads up to their biggest fight?

3. At the end of Act II, why does Elyot calling "Sollocks" not work?

4. Elyot muses that he and Amanda are clearly in love after they have a small tiff. Amanda protests that he should not sound so bitter about the fact. Why would Elyot sound bitter or resigned when saying that he and Amanda are in love?

5. Why would Elyot say that he and Amanda would have been perfectly happy with Victor and Sibyl?

6. At the beginning of Act II, does it appear that Elyot and Amanda have been getting along? How can the reader tell?

7. Is Amanda being honest when she says she would never have been happy with Victor and how is it apparent?

8. What sets off the very first argument of Act II?

9. What do the reactions of Victor and Sibyl to the spectacle of Amanda and Elyot fighting suggest about their personalities?

10. Why does Elyot say that, despite their current happiness, being separated was probably for the best?

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