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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 does Mrs. Antrobus do when she sees the man who spread the story about Mr. Antrobus wanting to be a fish?

2. Who asked the refugees to come to the Antrobus' house?

3. During the Fortune Teller's speech she heckles the audience about letting what slip away from them?

4. Mr. Antrobus brought Sabina home after what?

5. When Sabina steps out of her character, she says the reason that she took the part of Sabina was because she hadn't what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the refugees talk about before Mrs. Antrobus begins talking about her children?

2. What happens when the Telegraph Boy sings a song about the Antrobus' anniversary?

3. According to Sabina, how do the Antrobuses treat each new child that dies?

4. What roles do the stand-ins play?

5. Describe the refugee named Homer.

6. When Sabina begins to repeat her lines from Act 1, she breaks character and tells the audience what?

7. When Mrs. Antrobus says judges are of no use, how does Mr. Antrobus reply?

8. Who are "people of straw" according to Sabina?

9. What request does Sabina make of the audience at the end of Act 1?

10. Mr. Antrobus tells Henry that war is a pleasure compared to what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three types of irony and how does the play use them? Cite examples from the play in support of your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What is an explanation the play gives, through its other themes and motifs, for why Sabina refuses to play out the full seduction scene? Cite examples in support of your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the play, what does the weather in the various parts symbolize?

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