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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. What is the main topic of conversation in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Love.
(b) Having babies.
(c) Travel.
(d) Careers.

2. What does Kit do while waiting for Angie to finish cleaning her room?
(a) Makes small talk with Joyce.
(b) Walks up and down the block.
(c) Brushes her hair.
(d) Tries to leave without Angie.

3. Which character does not have a dead lover?
(a) Nijo.
(b) Marlene.
(c) Pope Joan.
(d) Joyce.

4. What does Angie lick?
(a) The ice cream she is eating.
(b) Dirt from the sidewalk.
(c) The cut on her leg.
(d) Kit's menstral blood.

5. Jeanine can best be described as:
(a) A staunch feminist.
(b) A smart, but lazy person.
(c) An ambitious woman who lacks self confidence.
(d) A spoiled girl who never had to work for her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the dinner guests react to Joan's story?

2. What is Angie's secret?

3. How many job interviews does Marlene come up with for Jeanine?

4. Which new guest arrives during Act 1, Part 3?

5. Where does Act 1, Part 1 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before you learn that Shona is lying, does she show that she deserves a chance to be sent on a good job interview? Why?

2. How is Marlene's coworker Win a reflection on her own character?

3. How does Churchill portray women in dynamic and unlikely spiritual roles?

4. What evidence from the play supports Marlene's eagerness to show her admiration for people who have tried to make something of themselves?

5. Why might Joyce have been so short with Marlene on her visit?

6. How is Joyce's husband similar to the other male characters mentioned in the play?

7. Does Marlene really thinks Angie is stupid and strange?

8. What evidence from the play further supports Marlene's stated admiration of Margaret Thatcher?

9. Why might the author include so many dinner guests who have worn men's clothing?

10. Why might Churchill have shown Angie talking one moment about plans to kill her mother and plans to go to the movies the next moment?

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