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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 does Geoffrey say about his relationship with Pfeni?
2. What does Sara say she is grateful for as she makes a brief speech in Act 1, Scene 3?
3. When Pfeni first arrives, she is late. Who or what does she blame that on?
4. What does Sara say about the prospect of marriage?
5. What does Gorgeous say about herself?
Short Essay Questions
1. What comparisons might be drawn between the Chekhov play, The Sisters, and this one?
2. What does Gorgeous appear to be interested in?
3. What can be discerned about the sisters' father?
4. How does Sara act toward Merv in Act 1, Scene 2?
5. In Act 1, Scene 2, give an example that demonstrates what is revealed about Pfeni's self-image.
6. Describe the relationship between Geoffrey and Pfeni.
7. What does Act 1, Scene 2 reveal about Sara's attitudes toward marriage and how is this revealed?
8. What might be inferred about the play or the people in it from the performance from The Scarlet Pimpernel?
9. What are Sara's relationships like as seen in Act 1, Scene 1?
10. How does Sara appear to feel about her past?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Each sister is either avoiding a truth in her life or hiding a truth in her life.
1) Discuss each sister in turn.
2) Choose one thing she is either hiding or running from.
3) Discuss the resolution or change that occurs during the course of the play.
Essay Topic 2
Sara is repeatedly described as "bitter" and "cold" and "hard." Discuss her emotional journey throughout the play. Offer specific examples of her hardness, then her gradual softening. What incidents cause some of the changes along her journey?
Essay Topic 3
Wendy Wasserstein, the playwright, was part of the theatre community in New York, and would, necessarily as part of it, have been affected by the AIDS epidemic and the lost lives of men young men in that community. Discuss the character of Geoffrey. Why do you think Wasserstein chose to write his character in the way she did. What do you think she was saying about the shortness of life itself and the importance of art?
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