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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 do Lippo and Mrs. Maurrant do as the group discusses music and their respective favorites?

2. What is Sam Kaplan's opinion of the concert he had just seen?

3. How does Mr. Maurrant look when he arrives home?

4. What has the country's heat wave caused?

5. What is the lighting on the stage?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this scene show that Mr. Buchanan is a good husband?

2. Describe the lighting and the character in the window.

3. How does Mrs. Maurrant react when Mrs. Jones tells her not to let her daughter get involved with a Jew? Why does everyone insist she not date a Jew?

4. How are Shirley and Rose's beliefs about the mingling of cultures different?

5. What do the women do after they invite Mrs. Maurrant to visit?

6. What does Rose ask the group? How do they respond?

7. What do the police allow Mr. Maurrant to do? Why might they allow this?

8. What are two nursemaids doing?

9. How has Mr. Maurrant's mood worsened?

10. What shocking remark does Sam make to Rose? How does she respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters interact like a family.

Part 1) How do they interact like a family?

Part 2) What has brought them together as a family-like unit?

Part 3) Do they care for one another throughout the entire play? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sam and Rose's relationships deepens as the play progresses.

Part 1) How?

Part 2) How do the neighbors respond to their relationship? Why?

Part 3) How does their separation from one another at the end of the play reflect their relationship at the beginning of the play?

Essay Topic 3

Sam shows bravery.

Part 1) When does he act bravely?

Part 2) Why does Sam do this?

Part 3) What do Sam's actions say about his character?

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