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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. Who does the mother reminisce about by noting that he is now the same age as the bride would be on her wedding day?
2. What question does Leonardo's wife ask him that makes him angry?
3. What does the servant ask the bride to do after the son and mother have left?
4. What does the mother describe as "a man, children, and for everybody else a wall two feet thick"?
5. What does Leonardo cause the girl to do after she tells him about the gifts the son and mother have purchased?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the mother refuse to leave her home to live with her son?
2. How does Leonardo react when his wife asks why he is leaving the house again at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?
3. What reasons do the mother and son give to the bride's father when he asks why they took the long way around to his home?
4. After the wife shows surprise at hearing that Leonardo has been taking his horse across the plain, how does Leonardo react towards her?
5. What do Leonardo and the bride discuss while they are hiding in the woods in Act 3, Scene 1?
6. How does the bride react after the servant tells her that a man on a horse was at her window?
7. What do the woodcutters argue with the moon about when they first meet?
8. Describe the encounter between the girls and the beggar woman when she first arrives at the house in Act 3, Scene 2.
9. What questions does Leonardo asks the bride while they are hiding in the woods, and what does this say about their escape?
10. What do the son/groom and Leonardo's wife talk about after the wedding?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In the play, both the bride and Leonardo show similar reactions to the bride and son's impending wedding. What is this reaction? What is the author's intent of portraying such similar reactions between these two characters?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role of trees in the play. What do they represent? What purpose do they play?
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