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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 the state of consumer markets?
2. What are the professions of the two main characters?
3. What color is the hair of Joe and Edna's children?
4. Why do the characters discuss "Mrs. Consumer" and Hollywood?
5. What does Joe initially think about strikes?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Scene 1 the play foreshadows many of the characters whose stories are told. Agate gives the reader a quick look back. Who are the characters he brings attention to and what are there issues?
2. What is Miller's response to the job change?
3. How does Scene 6 foreshadow what will happen to Benjamin?
4. Is Fayette's decision to fire Miller for refusing to spy on his supervisor morally right or wrong?
5. Why is the Voice's evidence that Clayton is a spy more credible than Clayton's denials?
6. How are Scenes 1 and 2 related?
7. Is striking the best option for the workers or should they have explored other possible solutions?
8. What is the point of emphasizing the closeness of Philadelphia to the workers?
9. What are some of Joe's explanations for not making enough money to support his family?
10. What are the first indications that Joe and Edna are having financial problems?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Odets uses two techniques to shift the reader back and forward in time in order to tell his story. What two techniques does he use and where in the story does he use them? What are the benefits of using these techniques? The downside? If you were re-writing the play, how would you rearrange the scenes?
Essay Topic 2
Odets' play has been called dated because of the language. The slang and figurative language almost demand a close reading of the play with a good dictionary at hand. How does the language aid communication and relationships in the 1930s? What does it communicate about the speakers and listeners? What if anything could have influenced the language of the working class? What if any contemporary communications are comparable to Odets' language?
Essay Topic 3
Money, who has it and who does not, is at the heart of this play. What are the immediate, short term, and long-term effects of the decreasing financial situation on the lives of Joe, Edna, and their family?
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