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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 happens in Act 1, Scene 3, Part 1 when Zhaboonigan runs from the store?

2. What is Pelajia doing at the beginning of the play?

3. What best describes what Philomena is wearing in the beginning of the play?

4. What does Philomena say about Bingo Betty?

5. What emotional state is Veronique in when she comes to see Marie-Adele?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Philomena have a child with and what happened to it?

2. Does Pelajia's first idea for getting the money to travel to Toronto for the big bingo game work? What happens?

3. In the van on their way to Toronto, what fears does Marie-Adele express about Annie considering anything should happen to Marie-Adele?

4. What do we learn about the character of Marie-Adele in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What is the women's reaction to the news about the biggest bingo game? What does Emily Dictionary specifically want to do if she wins?

6. What does Zhaboonigan try to do as Marie-Adele is being led away with Nanabush? Why do you think she tries to do this?

7. When Annie visits Marie-Adele's house, where Veronique is now looking after Marie-Adele's family, what does she want and why?

8. In the beginning of Act 1, Scene 3, Part 1, what does Annie tell Emily she was not able to find out? What do they resolve to do?

9. What is Annie's response to Marie-Adele's fears over what might happen after Marie-Adele's death?

10. What does Pelajia comment to her sister, Philomena, about bingo and the old ways?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the experience at the world's largest bingo game change the women characters in the play? Do they move on from bingo? Does the place of bingo change in their lives? In what other ways do these women change? How does the death of Marie-Adele affect them? Use examples from the play to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Women are the main focus in this play while men attain a background or even negative role. Discuss the negative or background role of the men in this play. Why are there no male characters? In what light are the male characters spoken about? What do the views and discussions of the women lead the reader to believe about the male characters in their lives? Include in your discussion the characters of Big Joey, Eugene, Simon, the Chief, Henry, and Fritz the Katz.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the different structural elements executed in the play and what they do for the play as a whole. What lighting or sound changes occur and what prompts them? Are they necessary in the play? What is the author's purpose in using them? Also, discuss the montage scene in Act 2. Answer the previous questions about this scene. What do these structures do for the play as a whole?

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