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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. In what decade is the play set?

2. What news does Lewis have for Warnie?

3. What does Lewis ask Joy about her return to America?

4. How does Warnie feel about this news?

5. What is Riley's theory on women?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Scene 2 open? Who is present in the scene? What are they doing?

2. What has Joy asked of Lewis? How did he respond to this request? How do others feel about this?

3. Who is present at the beginning of the scene? What are they discussing? How does Lewis respond to them?

4. What are Harrington, Gregg, and Riley discussing? How do the men and Warnie feel about Joy?

5. What does Lewis tell Douglas? What does Douglas ask?

6. What does the doctor tell Lewis? What mood is Joy in at this time? What do Joy and Lewis discuss?

7. What do Joy and Lewis talk about? What does Joy ask Lewis?

8. What does Lewis' decision reveal about him and his feelings? How will this decision affect him and those around him?

9. What does Lewis tell Joy? How does she respond?

10. What is Warnie concerned about as the scene opens? Why is he concerned about this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Lewis and Warnie's impressions and feelings about Joy in the first act of the play. How to the two men see Joy? How do their feelings change and evolve about Joy through the play?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the play makes use of foreshadowing. What events are foreshadowed in the play? How are these events foreshadowed? Why do you think the author used foreshadowing in the play?

Essay Topic 3

What significance does the wardrobe have in the play? Where does this reference come from? Who interacts with the wardrobe? Why?

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