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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Act one, what type of show does Benare say will be staged in the meeting hall that night?
(a) A soccer match.
(b) A mock trial.
(c) A poetry recitation.
(d) A play.

2. How does Benare describe Samant's character in Act One?
(a) She calls him a baby.
(b) She forgets his name.
(c) She calls him a buffoon.
(d) She says he is a very pure and good person.

3. What does Benare say is Kashikar's job?
(a) He is a lawyer.
(b) He is a teacher.
(c) He is a scientist.
(d) He is a social worker.

4. What is Karnik's job?
(a) He is an experimental theatre actor.
(b) He is a social worker.
(c) He is an Intellectual.
(d) He is a scientist.

5. What role was Damle supposed to play in the mock trial?
(a) The defense.
(b) A witness.
(c) The judge.
(d) The prosecution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the characters decide should play the accused?

2. How does Ponkshe react to Benare's offer to do something for the others in Act one?

3. What does Benare say she never buys?

4. Who enters in Act One while Benare and the others are singing?

5. What does Benare say the mock trial that day will be about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Benare asks the other characters to sit like children because she is going to tell them a story. Then, she recites half a poem to them before changing to a song. Describe the other characters’ responses to her and what her performance says about her character.

2. When Sukhatme teases Benare about her “husband,” what is her response and why?

3. Benare has a habit of teasing Ponkshe. Select and describe specific examples of how she makes fun of him.

4. Benare talks about what she was like as a child. Contrast her description of her childhood self to the way she is in the play.

5. Kashikar repeatedly verbally abuses his wife and son throughout the course of the play. Describe specific examples of how Kashikar is abusive toward his wife.

6. In the opening scene, Benare and Samant hide and jump out to scare the other characters as the other characters enter, and Benare thinks it is funny that the others are scared. Explain how this contrasts the other characters’ teasing of her.

7. In the opening scene, Benare is flirting with Samant. Provide specific examples of how Benare lets Samant know she likes him.

8. When Ponkshe wants tea, Samant informs him there is no sugar. Explain what the absence of sugar symbolizes in the play.

9. In the opening scene, Samant calls Benare a “schoolmarm,” but she appears to take offense at this because she corrects them. Explain why Benare would take offense to being called a “schoolmarm.”

10. Mrs. Kashikar has a garland that her husband bought her but says she forgot to buy one for Benare. What does the garland symbolize?

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