Orpheus Descending | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prologue

1. Where is the play set?

2. What is gilded on the window of the set?

3. What is on the drapery over the entrance to the alcove?

4. Who does Dolly speak to in the Prologue?

5. Who is returning from the hospital in the Prologue?

6. What does Dolly compare Lady and Jabe's bedrooms to?

7. Who does Beulah say Lady's heart was broken by?

8. What is the name of the county in which the play is set?

9. Who is Dolly's husband?

10. Who is Beulah's husband?

11. Who is Sheriff Talbott married to?

12. What is Carol Cutrere's brother's name?

13. What does Beulah say...
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