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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 old will the bride be turning when she is married?

2. In the lullaby sung by Leonardo's wife and mother-in-law, what is the animal afraid of?

3. Who says, "Whenever I leave you I feel a great emptiness and a kind of lump in my throat"?

4. What does the girl call Leonardo's wife when she comes to her home in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. Who said, "You have to punish it, torture it, to get anything!"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Leonardo asks the bride while they are hiding in the woods, and what does this say about their escape?

2. Why does the mother ask her son if he's wearing a watch after they arrive at his bride's home?

3. What are some of the complaints the mother makes about the bride's land?

4. What do the mother and the bride's father argue about before the wedding?

5. Why does the mother say she wishes her son was a girl?

6. What do the bride and Leonardo agree to do at the end of Act 3, Scene 1?

7. What prompts the son to ask his mother, "Would you like me to kill them"?

8. How does Leonardo's wife react when she hears her cousin is to be married?

9. What case does the bride want to make to the mother after the two men have died?

10. How does the mother act towards the bride when she first enters the house after the mens' deaths?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of weapons in the play. What do they symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the mother and son's view of forgiveness. How does each character handle their issues from the past? What role does forgiveness play when dealing with these issues?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of the lullaby in Act 1, Scene 2. What purpose does the lullaby play? What significance does reciting the lullaby twice have?

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