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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 did Will find in Bill's safety deposit box?
2. What does Pete say his wife would do for him even after she became sick?
3. How does Will excuse himself from his meeting with Etta Doris?
4. How does the young man respond to being told to go?
5. What does the young man say to Lily Dale about the day Bill went down in the water?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Lily Dale's meeting with Etta Doris.
2. How does the young man from Atlanta get Lily Dale to talk to him?
3. How is it that Pete decides to take a trip to Atlanta?
4. What does Will call Tom about?
5. After recounting his meeting at the bank, Will lies down on the sofa and closes his eyes. How is he interrupted?
6. What confession does Will make to Lily Dale after he tells her about the courtesy call at the bank?
7. What is Pete's attitude toward education?
8. How does Will's meeting at the Bank go?
9. What does Will say to Carson and Pete about the way he has been treating his wife?
10. What sacrifices do Lily Dale and Will propose in order to get by?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Lily Dale? What drives her? What makes her sweet and charming one minute and perfectly self-centered the next? How does she contribute to Will's downfall?
Essay Topic 2
What is Carson's function in THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA? What does he represent for Pete? What does he represent for Lily Dale and Will? How does Foote use him to advance the plot?
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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