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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 Irma's reasoning for why the Chief has forgotten her and her needs?

2. How are the lives of the real Bishop, Judge, and General different from those that become them as part of a fantasy?

3. What does she ask Carmen about the other girls?

4. What happens when Irma leaves the Bishop?

5. What does the Judge ask the Prisoner, in a different voice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Queen say about the state of the country?

2. What does Carmen think of his ideas?

3. How do the others react to Roger's castration?

4. What do Irma and the Chief of Police know about the rebellion?

5. How do those on the balcony appear?

6. How do the others react when the Chief complains no one has wanted to pretend to be him?

7. What does Irma say about Carmen's daughter?

8. Why is it difficult to retain prostitutes?

9. Why do Carmen and the Queen run out of the room?

10. How does Irma feel about Carmen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Irma believes if the rebels win, she will be out of business.

Part 1) Why does she believe this? What does she believe is the fate of herself and her prostitutes?

Part 2) In the end, is this her fate? Why or why not?

Part 3) Is Irma right about the rebels? Why or why not?

Part 4) Are the men in the rebellion different than the men Irma knows? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Irma runs the whorehouse.

Part 1) Does she have real power? Why or why not?

Part 2) Does she desire power? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Irma change throughout the play? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The clients of the whorehouse are known as visitors.

Part 1) Why might be the reason for them being called visitors? Who are the clients the reader meets?

Part 2) Why might the author have created the characters the way he did?

Part 3) What are their fantasies? Why do they have these fantasies?

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