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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 Toomey seem to make the boys feel?

2. What did the men hang Epstein up by?

3. Where is Act 1, Scene 3 set?

4. How many sex positions does Selridge say there are?

5. What is the prostitute doing at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Toomey wakes up the soldiers.

2. What does Toomey tell the soldiers about their future service in the war?

3. Describe Eugene's attempt to dance with Daisy.

4. Compare Carney and Selridge's fantasies.

5. What does Daisy have to abstain from because of the religious holiday?

6. What keeps Eugene from defending Arnold Epstein?

7. Describe Arnold Epstein's eating habits.

8. Describe Rowena's personality.

9. Why is Carney upset at what Eugene wrote?

10. What kind of person is Eugene hoping to meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of religion in the play.

1) How seriously do the characters take their religions? What influences do the characters' religions have on them?

2) How is Daisy affected by Catholicism and by going to a Catholic school? How does her religious background affect her relationship with Eugene?

3) Are the soldiers' perceptions of Jewish people based in religion, or do they have a different basis?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss humor in the play.

1) How do the characters use humor in their interactions? How do they use humor as insults? How does humor form part of their friendship?

2) In what ways does the author use humor in the play? How does the author combine serious issues such as prejudice and war with humor?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of fantasy in the novel.

1) What are the different soldiers' fantasies, and what do those fantasies say about their characters? Can their fantasies be separated into different categories?

2) What is Toomey's fantasy, and why? Is Toomey's fantasy different from the soldiers' fantasies, and what does it say about Toomey as a character?

3) What role does having fantasies play in the characters' lives? Why do the characters want to discuss and bet on their fantasies?

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