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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Barbara use in Act 3, Scene 4 to mean not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings?
(a) Incongruous.
(b) Infraction.
(c) Disolution.
(d) Abstraction.

2. When does Ivy say she is leaving in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) In four days.
(b) In two weeks.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Next week.

3. In the three-way-split conversation that occurs in Act 2, who is Mattie Fae speaking with?
(a) Charlie and Little Charles.
(b) Steve and Karen.
(c) Violet and Beverly.
(d) Ivy and Barbara.

4. When did August: Osage County premiere in New York?
(a) September 12, 2007.
(b) December 30, 2008.
(c) March 12, 2008.
(d) December 4, 2007.

5. What is Steve's last name?
(a) Aiken.
(b) Walters.
(c) Heidebrecht.
(d) Fordham.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what theater did August: Osage County premiere in Chicago?

2. What playwright and author does Barbara compare Ivy to in Act 3, Scene 5?

3. Who berates Jean for watching a movie on television in Act 2?

4. In what kind of car does Violet say Beverly lived from the ages of four until ten?

5. What does Steve claim he was doing when he was Jean's age in Act 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret does Mattie Fae reveal to Barbara in Act 3, Scene 1?

2. What is revealed in Violet's description of her mother in Act 2?

3. What happens when Barbara and Violet are left alone together in Act 3, Scene 1?

4. What is the violence in Acts 2 and 3 representative of thematically?

5. What triggers the conflict between Barbara and Violet in Act 2?

6. How are Violet and Little Charles juxtaposed against one another in Act 2?

7. What is the significance of the house's temperature in Act 2?

8. How does irony apply to Violet's character in August: Osage County?

9. How does irony come into play in the final moments of Act 3, Scene 5?

10. What does Sheriff Gilbeau reveal to Barbara in Act 3, Scene 4?

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