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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 is Ill's wife's name?

2. What is Ill's first name in the play?

3. To whom was the town museum sold in the play?

4. Who in the town owns a car, according to the Mayor in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What are the names of Claire's gum chewing brutes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Claire's body is symbolic of her character?

2. Where does Ill go in Act 2, Scene 2? What is alarming to him there?

3. Who, as a whole, are Claire's ex-husbands? How does she feel about them?

4. What questions and answers take place between Ill and the townspeople in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3?

5. Who delivers exposition about the town in the opening scene of the play? What is revealed?

6. How does Act 2, Scene 3 illustrate the theme of denial?

7. What is the reaction to Ill's points in Act 2, Scene 3? How do they blockade him?

8. What strange questions does Claire ask upon her arrival in the town? What are the replies?

9. How does the mayor end his conversation with Ill in Act 2, Scene 2?

10. What does Ill say to Claire in his attempts to woo her in the Village Wood? How does she respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of power and control in the play. How does Claire embody this theme? What choices has she made which contribute to this?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the author's notes in the postscript describing the approach to direction and performance of the play. What elements are essential? What should not be emphasized too deeply?

Essay Topic 3

Examine and analyze the character of Ill. How does this character come to embody a tragic hero? What transition does he make in the course of the play?

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