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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. What food does Mother-Jacques bring to the young couple in The Future is in the Eggs?

2. Grandfather-Jacques insolently asks Jacqueline, "Who do you think you are, what about the cult of the ____?"

3. Jacqueline tells her brother to "show some" what in The Future is in the Eggs?

4. What does the Announcer say the leader sticks out in The Leader?

5. What does Beringer pour for himself in Act 3 of Rhinoceros?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting of The Leader?

2. What does Berenger drink in Act 3 of Rhinoceros? What discussion takes place about this?

3. What is Ionesco's principle theme in The Future is in the Eggs?

4. What is Daisy representative of in society in the play Rhinoceros? How does this affect Berenger?

5. What does Roberta's father bring from the kitchen in The Future is in the Eggs?

6. What news does Daisy arrive with in Act 3 of Rhinoceros? How does Dudard react?

7. What is the significance of Grandfather's death in The Future is in the Eggs?

8. What do the Young Lovers represent in The Leader?

9. In what ways does The Leader resemble Rhinoceros? How are the plays different?

10. Who enters to explain the death of Grandfather in The Future is in the Eggs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of bourgeois life and bourgeois values in Rhinoceros. How do the characters represent this? How does Ionesco feel about bourgeois values based on the play?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the literary and philosophical allusions to Nietzsche, Descartes, and Socrates in Rhinoceros. What does Ionesco challenge in the ideals of these writers?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of totalitarian/fascist/Nazi regimes as expressed in Rhinoceros. What symbolism does Ionesco use to illuminate this theme?

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