The Island, by Athol Fugard Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What items are put together to make a necklace? (from Scene One, Pages 196 – 203)

Rocks.

Cutlery.

Bullets.

Nails.

2.

Who are Scott and Sky? (from Scene One, Pages 203 – 206)

Fellow inmates.

Hodoshe’s assistant guards.

People with whom Winston has an imaginary telephone conversation.

People with whom John has an imaginary telephone conversation?

3.

What is the “grotesquely futile labor” (195) that Winston and John are forced to perform? (from Scene One, Page 195)

Moving rocks back and forth from one pile to another.

Moving sand back and forth from one pile to another.

Burying dead bodies.

Emptying the ocean with a bucket.

4.

Who is Prinsloo? (from Scene Two, Pages 211 – 216)

A fellow prisoner who has just been released.

The man who betrayed John to the police and got him sent to prison.

John's former cell mate.

The man who tells John that his sentence has been reduced.

5.

What is significant about John’s reference, in the “phone call,” to the fact that he and Winston were at the beach? (from Scene One, Pages 203 – 206)

He makes it sound as though they felt rewarded for the work they were doing.

He makes it sound like it was a beautiful day, and a break.

He does not mention the torturous, punishing things they were forced to do there.

He does not mention how he and Winston almost killed the guard because of how they were being tortured.

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