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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Ouisa, what liquid are workmen using to clean the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
2. In what state does Paul tell Rick and Elizabeth he sill finally reunite with his father?
3. According to Kitty what famous starlet used the alias Harriet Brown at hotels?
4. What type of law does Kitty's "friend" practice?
5. Which of Chekhov's three sister's does Elizabeth decide she wants to play first?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the play, Flanders Kittredge refers to himself as a gambler and an artist. He alternately speaks in praise of money and beauty, but he seems most enamored of his own reputation.
Write an essay on the topic of Flan's conflicted and ultimately incomplete soul. What is his primary objective throughout the play? Why is he so intent on finding Paul? How does he truly view himself, and how does that make him incompatible with Ouisa?
Essay Topic 2
The idea of the imagination resonates strongly throughout he play, beginning of course with Paul's "thesis" in the first passages. Write an essay on Guare's understanding of imagination in three parts:
Part 1) Compare Paul's conception of the purpose of imagination in his thesis with what he perceives to be society's new definition of imagination. How are they different? Why does Paul consider the latter reductive?
Paul 2) How doe Ouisa, Flan and Geoffrey react to Paul's thesis on imagination? When Paul appears in Ouisa's imagination later in the play, how does he amend his notion of imagination?
Paul 3) How is what Paul actually does to the families of the play the opposite of his sense of imagination? Is he chipping away at his own personality living in a state of constant deception?
Essay Topic 3
Time and again in this narrative, the question of race in America crops up. Write an essay on the idea of race in the world of this play. Do the Kittredges seem to have any other black acquaintances besides Paul? What realities of black life in America does he bring into their lives? What darker realities about race arise from the polite liberal facade of the parents in the play?
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