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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. Why has Brian started to write again?

2. What topic does Joe try to change it to when Maggie continues with her lack of acceptance?

3. What does Maggie talk to Joe about at first?

4. What is located in the interview area?

5. Who is Claire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Mark doing before Brian took him in?

2. What does Beverly think that Mark's life is based on?

3. How does Brian end his time with the interviewer?

4. What does the interviewer do to help Joe relax?

5. What happened to Felicity after she received news about Claire's death?

6. What happens when Brian tries to join Beverly in her dancing?

7. How does Joe break the news about his condition to his son?

8. How does Beverly react to Mark's information about Brian's condition?

9. What is Brian's profession and how does he feel his work has been affected by his condition?

10. How does Felicity react to the interviewer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author include the clinical nature of death in American society in this play? Which characters express this idea? How do they express it?

Essay Topic 2

How effective do you believe the author is at tying together three individual stories which all have one unifying theme? Do you believe the play would have been more effective had he told only one story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Brian seem to be more sophisticated and evolved than the other patients? Why do you think this might be the case?

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