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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. How does nature interfere with the act which follows "A Picnic Party"?

2. What is painted, in addition to the wall, on the sheet?

3. Where does Miss La Trobe go after the pageant ends?

4. Who particularly likes the portion of the pageant that starts right after the intermission?

5. Who announces that the pageant is over?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Isa go when she slips away from the pageant audience? What do she do as she wanders around?

2. After the pageant resumes following the intermission, who takes to the stage? Who particularly likes this portion of the pageant?

3. Who does Isa look for as the audience departs?

4. What scheme does Lady Harraden come up with involving a con-man?

5. How does one audience member critique the play-within-a-play, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

6. What does the audience talk about while they wait for the next scene of the pageant to commence?

7. What does the second scene of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" depict?

8. Where does Miss La Trobe go after the pageant?

9. Where does Isa invite William to go with her?

10. What does Reverend Streatfield ask the audience for at the end of the pageant? What interrupts him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Woolf's use of allusions. What does she allude to throughout the novel? What is the meaning behind these allusions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Woolf's use of allegory in the novel "Between the Acts". What are some examples in the novel? What are the meanings behind the examples?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Woolf's use of imagery in the novel "Between the Acts." What is imagery? What are some examples of imagery in the novel?

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