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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Dr. Bellman meeting with at the beginning of the second scene in Act 3?
2. What does Jim tell Dr. Bellman he wants to do in the last scene?
3. Who is also invited to the conversation that is happening in the very beginning of the second scene in Act 3?
4. What is the discussion about in Act 3, Scene 2?
5. How has Jim been behaving as the group assesses in the second scene of Act 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think the author's intent was for ending the play so tragically?
1) What is the message he is conveying with Jim's hopelessness? How is Jim's release from the hospital ironic? What is your opinion of the way Jim sacrifices everything in his life that makes him happy in order to live a life of restriction and control.
2) How is Jim's life with Ann similar to his stay at the hospital? Which one do you think is worse? Why?
3) What was Jim's role in the ending? How much of the responsibility should he claim for how his life turned out? To what extent is he a victim compared to a contributor? Why?
4) Was there another way to end the play where Jim did not have to suffer so much? If not, why? If there was, what could it have been?
Essay Topic 2
The staff at the hospital played a necessary role in Jim's stay, state of mind, and actions.
1) Describe the characters you think were the most influential in Jim's hospital stay, how they were depicted, and the ways they affected Jim's actions.
2) Which scenes that included Jim's interactions with the hospital staff were the most important to the plot? Explain the specific part of the scenes and how they were significant to the play.
3) Why do you think there were so many different doctors and attendants that interacted with Jim? What does that display for the hospital's role in the play? Why is this effective in leading to the eventual outcome?
Essay Topic 3
Explain in detail what "seven" is and what it actually represents in terms of Jim's character and the hospital in general. Use the events in the book to analyze how "seven" was used, citing specific examples to illustrate its purpose.
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