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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. How does Beverly feel about the information that Mark shares with her?

2. What does Maggie refuse to do when she arrives at the cottage?

3. What does the interviewer tell Joe about his feelings?

4. Where is the setting for the opening of this play?

5. Who does Felicity say Agnes is like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe feel about his life as he sits reminiscing with his wife?

2. What did Beverly tell Brian he had lost the magic and zest for and how did Brian rationalize this?

3. What is happening in Brian's cottage as act 2 opens?

4. What is the main plot line of the play, The Shadow Box?

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

6. How does Maggie feel about going into the cottage?

7. What do Beverly and Mark agree about in regards to Brian?

8. How did Agnes's plan work in regards to her mother?

9. What was Agnes's rationale for taking on the duty of writing the letters to her mother?

10. How does Mark feel about Beverly's behavior and how does Brian feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Maggie's entry into the cottage symbolize? How have her views changed throughout the play? In what way does she show herself as a selfless person?

Essay Topic 2

In what way does the interviewer help give the perception that death should be viewed as a scientific process? Do you agree with that view? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways does the interviewer seem to be omnipotent? Do you believe the interviewer is a higher power? Why or why not?

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