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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 Mrs. Mayhew expect the pageant will end?

2. What show does Mrs. Manresa say she recently took her nephew to see?

3. What is the name of the act which follows "A Picnic Party"?

4. What does the Reverend observe about the pageant?

5. What does the family have for dessert after the pageant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the audience talk about while they wait for the next scene of the pageant to commence?

2. What did Miss La Trobe hope to start the "Ourselves" section of the pageant with?

3. What does the second scene of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" depict?

4. Who are the main characters of "A Picnic Party", and who do they find they have in common?

5. What scheme does Lady Harraden come up with involving a con-man?

6. Where does Isa go when she slips away from the pageant audience? What do she do as she wanders around?

7. What does Giles imagine himself as after "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" ended, and what did he take as the moral of the story?

8. How does one audience member critique the play-within-a-play, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

9. What is the premise of "Where There's a Will, There's A Way"?

10. What does the narrator predict will happen between Giles and Isa at the end of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the second scene of the pageant in the novel "Between the Acts". Describe the second scene. What takes place? How does the audience react? What is a restoration comedy? In what way is this scene a parody?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Woolf's use of allusions. What does she allude to throughout the novel? What is the meaning behind these allusions?

Essay Topic 3

What are some examples of romance in the novel "Between the Acts"? How does Woolf portray these romantic feelings? Is this a central element of the novel? What deeper meaning might these examples of romance contain?

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