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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. How does Lily Dale say the maids would disappoint their bosses?
2. What does Will say about his family's financial situation after his father died?
3. According to Carson, Bill's roommate NEVER did what?
4. What kind of person does Will feel he is at heart?
5. What does Will say the young man from Atlanta's relationship to Bill is?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the difference between Will and his brother?
2. Why does Will want such a big house for only two people?
3. What does Alice Temple say to Lily Dale about God?
4. How does Will say he started off at Sunshine Produce?
5. Why does Tom come by?
6. How are Will and Lily Dale's attitudes toward religion different?
7. How does Lily Dale respond to being deceived by the young man from Atlanta?
8. Who is the young man from Atlanta?
9. What does Lily Dale say Bill would do the minute he got home for Christmas?
10. What does Will say to Pete to convince him to loan his life savings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore the roles of the maids in THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA. How are they treated? What does their status seem to be? How does the talk of Disappointment Clubs highlight the role of the maids in the play? How does the generational difference between Clara and Etta Doris parallel other generational differences in the play?
Essay Topic 2
Who is Bill in THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA? How is his death connected to the action of the play? How does Lily Dale's relationship with his memory change over the course of the play? How does Will's?
Essay Topic 3
The audience never even learns his name, but the young man from Atlanta is a distinct force in the play. What is this character's dramatic purpose? Why do we never learn his name? What kind of aura surrounds the young man from Atlanta in the beginning of the play? How does that aura evolve? Is our opinion of the young man at the end of the play more aligned with Will's or Lily Dale's? Why?
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