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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 Joe want to do in regards to his feelings?
2. Which of the following is the best definition of taboo?
3. What does Joe believe his illness has made him more of?
4. What does Brian say about every person's dreams?
5. What does the interviewer tell Joe about his feelings?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the interviewer find Joe as s/he talks to him and why does he seem this way?
2. What happens between Mark and Beverly after he spills champagne on his jacket?
3. What was Mark doing before Brian took him in?
4. How did Felicity handle the news about her daughter's death?
5. How does Maggie feel about going into the cottage?
6. Why did Brian's wife leave him?
7. What does Beverly think that Mark's life is based on?
8. What did Agnes finally do to try and give her mother the will to live again?
9. How did Agnes describe Felicity after her husband died?
10. What happens when Beverly finishes her dance performance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Do you think the patients and their families each lived life to its fullest while they were alive? Why or why not? Do you think someone dying will always have regrets? Why or why not?
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