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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 Carmen say it will not take the rebels long to discover?

2. What does the General insist, after Irma leaves and the Executioner comes looking for her?

3. What is Carmen doing?

4. What does the Bishop repeatedly insist that the Young Woman do?

5. What kind of mission is Arthur about to go on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Central Committee's instructions?

2. What does Luke want with Chantal?

3. What do Irma and the Chief of Police know about the rebellion?

4. What is the Judge's fantasy?

5. How do those on the balcony appear?

6. Who announces the Queen? What does he say?

7. How does Louis feel about Roger's beliefs regarding the revolution?

8. Why is it difficult to retain prostitutes?

9. What does Mark tell Roger to do?

10. Who does Irma believe will be the victors of this war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The whorehouse's visitors who pretend to be the Bishop, the Judge, and the General play those roles in real life.

Part 1) How do they get this opportunity? How do they feel about playing these roles in public?

Part 2) How does this opportunity change them? Could they effectively continue to play these roles? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this change affect their fates? What relevance does this have in real life?

Essay Topic 2

There is one central theme of the play.

Part 1) What is this theme? How is this theme first realized in the play?

Part 2) What are two events later in the play that reinforce this theme? How are the characters in the play affected by this theme?

Part 3) Do you believe this theme to be true in real life? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Chantal was once a prostitute at the whorehouse.

Part 1) Why is she no longer working there?

Part 2) Is she successful at what she is doing now? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does she act as a symbol?

Part 4) What is her fate? What is the purpose of this?

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