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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 does Felicity do to try and block out the interviewer's voice?
2. Where is the setting for the opening of this play?
3. Where is Joe hospitalized?
4. What does Brian say about day-to-day basis life can be?
5. What does Agnes do that causes Felicity to chastise her and launch into a bawdy song?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the interviewer brings up these doubts and alternate ideas to Agnes?
2. Why does Mark want Beverly to leave the cottage?
3. How does Joe feel about his life as he sits reminiscing with his wife?
4. What is happening at Joe's cottage in the beginning of act 2?
5. How does Joe break the news about his condition to his son?
6. How did Felicity handle the news about her daughter's death?
7. What does the interviewer do to help Joe relax?
8. What did Agnes finally do to try and give her mother the will to live again?
9. How did Agnes's plan work in regards to her mother?
10. What does Maggie agree to do after she realizes that their life together has gone by too fast?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In what ways does the interviewer seem to be omnipotent? Do you believe the interviewer is a higher power? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
How does the author demonstrate the theme of regret in the second act? How does this theme particularly affect Brian and Joe? Why do you believe it affects them more than Felicity?
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