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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 is the sheet painted to resemble a wall supposed to represent?

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

3. Who leaves Lady Harraden at the end of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

4. What is Mr. Oliver's laughter after "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" ends compared to?

5. When the pageant starts again after the intermission, what is the name of the young woman who takes to the stage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do many audience members object to in the "Ourselves" section of the pageant?

2. What does Giles wonder about Isa when he sees her in the barn?

3. What does a voice over a megaphone call out to the audience?

4. How is the stage set for "A Picnic Party"?

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

6. When Mrs. Swithin suggests thanking Miss La Trobe after the pageant is over, what does Mr. Oliver explain?

7. How does "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" end?

8. What does Giles imagine himself as after "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" ended, and what did he take as the moral of the story?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the career of the author of the novel "Between the Acts", Virginia Woolf. What are her accomplishments in regards to her writing career? What are some of her notable works? Do these works share some of the themes and techniques used in "Between the Acts"?

Essay Topic 2

What are some examples of romance in the novel "Between the Acts"? How does Woolf portray these romantic feelings? Is this a central element of the novel? What deeper meaning might these examples of romance contain?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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