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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 kind of entertainers are Flora and Bessie?

2. What does Rosa say she is ashamed of?

3. What is the name of the priest?

4. What kind of drug does the doctor give Assunta to give to Serafina?

5. What is Rosario's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alvaro's wedding never take place?

2. Why does the doctor not see a problem with Serafina's cremating Rosario's body?

3. How do the women react to Estelle's appearance?

4. What does Rosa say Jack told her about dancing on the dance floor?

5. Why does Rosa say her mother locked up her clothes?

6. Why does Father de Leo think Serafina has gone off the deep end?

7. What does Flora tell Serafina about Rosario?

8. How does the doctor want Assunta to help Serafina?

9. What does the doctor tell Father de Leo about Serafina?

10. What lesson does Serafina say Alvaro should learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the conventions of a play in terms of character, language and plot? In what way did THE ROSE TATTOO help to set the template for similar plays? Do modern plays still use the ideas the author used in THE ROSE TATTOO?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Serafina's character to the person she is at the beginning of the play to the person she is at the end.

1. What did Serafina hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2. What events changes Serafina's ideas about life?

3. How has Serafina's character changed by the end of the play?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's style. How would you describe the author's style? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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