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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 is the name of Joy's son?

2. Warnie enters the room in scene 3 carrying what?

3. Who does Lewis reassure in this chapter that Lewis and Joy are just friends?

4. How old was Lewis when his mother died?

5. What do Joy and Lewis joke about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Warnie and Lewis doing as this scene opens? What does Lewis admit to Warnie?

2. How is Lewis handling the news? What does he say or do that reveal how he is feeling?

3. What are the men talking about? How do their views differ?

4. What are Lewis and Joy's interactions like? What does Joy do that surprises Lewis?

5. What does Lewis tell Joy? How does she respond?

6. What is Warnie concerned about as the scene opens? Why is he concerned about this?

7. What does Lewis ask Joy? How does she feel about this request?

8. What topic does the conversation turn to after Joy arrives? What does Riley do? How does Joy react?

9. What does Lewis say about pain, suffering, and love? What benefit does he believe that suffering has?

10. Where does the scene open? Who is present? What are the characters doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Warnie and Lewis. What differences are there between the two men? What similarities do they share? How do the men react to Joy's presence in their lives?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of friendship in the play. What characteristics of friendship are presented? What negative aspects of friendship are presented? Who do you think best portrays friendship in the play? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Lewis and Warnie's impressions and feelings about Joy in the first act of the play. How to the two men see Joy? How do their feelings change and evolve about Joy through the play?

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