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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. Who took away the child that Claire bore?
(a) The Adoption Center.
(b) State Agency.
(c) The Salvation Army.
(d) Women's Programme.

2. The painter gives Mrs. Ill a portrait of whom in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Ill's daughter.
(b) Claire.
(c) Ill.
(d) Herself.

3. What establishment did Claire send the eunuchs to in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Her brothel.
(b) Her opium den.
(c) Her prison.
(d) Her factory.

4. What does Claire remark that she hates in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Radios.
(b) Cemeteries.
(c) Televisions.
(d) Museums.

5. What does the author write gives rise to speech in the postscript?
(a) Thought and action.
(b) Good diction.
(c) Ideas and feelings.
(d) Mannerisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what passage of the bible did the Priest make a sermon in Act 3, Scene 1?

2. What does Mrs. Ill call the butcher in Act 3, Scene 2?

3. Where does Act 3, Scene 2 take place?

4. What is Claire wearing in Act 3, Scene 1?

5. Who enters to speak to Claire in Act 3, Scene 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Act 3, Scene 3 change the tone of the play and the reader's view of the main characters?

2. What does the author suggest the play resembles in the postscript?

3. What is revealed about the townspeople in the final scene of the play?

4. What are Claire's final words to Ill in Act 3, Scene 3?

5. What does Durrenmatt say regarding the setting of the play?

6. What does Durrenmatt say in reference to allegory or symbolism in the postscript?

7. What is the author's point in writing the postscript?

8. What does the mayor tell Ill in Act 3, Scene 2 when offering him the gun?

9. What is expressed in the final song of the play?

10. Who has arrived in the town in Act 3, Scene 2? What is the townspeople's concern about this?

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