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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 the Reverend make of the pageant?
2. What is the name of the clergyman in the romantic comedy play?
3. In the romantic comedy, what is the name of the orphaned girl?
4. Where does Miss La Trobe go after the pageant ends?
5. What is Miss La Trobe's final assessment of her play?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the audience talk about while they wait for the next scene of the pageant to commence?
2. What does the second scene of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" depict?
3. How is the third section of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" conveyed to the audience? What amused the audience during this dead moment in the program?
4. Where does Isa go when she slips away from the pageant audience? What do she do as she wanders around?
5. Where does Isa invite William to go with her?
6. How does one audience member critique the play-within-a-play, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?
7. How does Mrs. Swithin break convention during the pageant?
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. What does Giles wonder about Isa when he sees her in the barn?
10. What makes Isa angry when she sees Giles in the barn?
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
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
Analyze and interpret the prologue of the pageant in the novel "Between the Acts". Describe the prologue. How does the audience react to it? Do any problems occur during the prologue? How are the themes of the novel illustrated in the prologue?
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