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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. Why does the audience go to the barn?

2. Who recites a long and confusing passage in the play?

3. What does Miss La Trobe lament after the play is stopped?

4. What does Mr. Haines do for a living?

5. What does Miss La Trobe see on the faces of the audience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Swithin laughed at while helping set up the event?

2. What do the villagers do when 'Queen Elizabeth' returns to the stage?

3. Who is Miss La Trobe? How does she carryout her role in the pageant?

4. What does Giles fume about while the group has tea?

5. As a skeptic and atheist, what does Mr. Oliver think about Mrs. Swithin?

6. What does Mrs. Swithin talk about in the barn?

7. Who accompanies Mrs. Swithin on a tour of Pointz Hall? What does she forget on the tour?

8. What does Pointz Hall host every year? Where will the event take place should there be fair or rainy weather?

9. What does Miss La Trobe lament as the audience leaves for the intermission?

10. What role does Albert play, and why is it not considered a stretch for him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the characters of the novel, particularly the principle characters. Who are the principle characters, and why? What conflicts are they dealing with? Describe the relationships between these characters.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the final scene of the pageant in the novel "Between the Acts". Describe the final scene. Why is this scene considered the climax? What happens during this scene? How does the audience react?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the modernist elements found in "Between the Acts." What is modernism? What are some elements of modernism in the novel? What are some examples of modernism in the pageant? How does the audience react to these examples?

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