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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 Harper bring with her when she enters in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. In what city does the main portion of Act 1, Scene 1 of Perestroika take place?

3. What bible story does Louis ask Joe to tell him in Act 3, Scene 7?

4. What famous instigator does Louis Ironson claim his grandmother saw speak?

5. What happens to Prior whenever he hears the celestial voice?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Belize secure some of Roy's AZT in Act 3, Scene 2?

2. Which of Louis' assertions particularly offends Belize in Act 3, Scene 2?

3. Why does Harper long for the end of days?

4. How do Prior and Hannah meet the second time?

5. Describe the interchange between Henry and Belize in Act 1, Scene 4?

6. What are Joe and Harper's secrets in Act 1, Scene 8?

7. How does Alexii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov compare the Theory of the Bolshevik Revolution with the Theory of the present?

8. What happens to Prior in Act 2, Scene 1?

9. Where is Roy the last time we see him in the play?

10. How has Prior Walter's illness progressed over the course of Angels in America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tony Kushner creates several prominent characters in the play that are not of this world. Each of these characters exists on a realm of being different from anyone else, even the other supernatural characters. Write an essay comparing three of these characters. Who are they and how have they manifested themselves onstage? With whom do they interact and what is the nature of this interaction? Are they benevolent? Violent?

Part 1) Mr. Lies

Part 2) Ethel Rosenberg

Part 3) The Angel

Essay Topic 2

The play Angels in America centers on two men battling the ravages of AIDS: Prior Walter and Roy Cohn. As the health of both men deteriorates, both become immersed in a supernatural world. How do the different experiences of Prior and Roy reflect two different attitudes towards death? AIDS? Companionship? In an essay, use these men's relationship to death and disease to delineate their different worldviews.

Essay Topic 3

Joe Pitt is the most ambiguous figure in the play. He is at once tortured, principled, and selfish. He is a victim and a bully. Write an essay about Kushner's attitude toward Joe. Divide the essay into three sections, focusing first on examples of sympathy for the confused and self-loathing man. The second section should focus on the unsympathetic qualities of Joe's character. The last section should be an opinion as to what Kushner believes about Joe as a person.

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