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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 amazes Mrs. Coffman about Lola's house?

2. What does Doc do when Lola tells him about Marie and Turk making out last night?

3. What does Doc stare at while waiting for Lola to get her coat?

4. Doc realizes that Marie's ______________ is lost.

5. Why is Doc perturbed when he sees Turk in his living room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lola try to assuage her boredom with the new postman?

2. What does Lola's dream symbolize?

3. Why does Lola change her mind about Mrs. Coffman's involvement in Little Sheba's disappearance?

4. What questions does Lola bombard Doc with about their life together and what is Doc's reply?

5. Who is Mrs. Coffman and what is her relationship with Lola?

6. How does Lola engage the milkman to stave off her boredom?

7. What decision does Doc help Lola to make about Little Sheba in her dream?

8. What does Doc hear which makes him leave the house without even telling Lola he is leaving?

9. What discovery does Lola make as Act 2, Scene 3 begins?

10. Who is Lola and how does she make her entrance into the play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the significance of the play's title. What did the author mean by calling the play COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA? Cite an example to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Lola. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Inge uses more than one instance of irony in the book. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the play and note why they are examples of irony.

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