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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 shoes are Lena and Boesman wearing?

2. What does Lena look up at when she and Boesman sit in Act 1?

3. What does "donnered" mean?

4. What does Lena say that Boesman was this morning?

5. What does Boesman do with his bread?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the places Boesman and Lena have traveled? Why?

2. What is Boesman doing at the beginning of Act 2? Why?

3. What does Lena say about the birds?

4. How does Boesman react to Lena's plan to sleep in the shanty?

5. How have the tables turned between Boesman and Lena after Outa's death?

6. What does Boesman seem to enjoy in Lena's behavior? How do we know?

7. What does Boesman think about Outa?

8. Why does Lena talk so much?

9. Why does Lena want to know where they've traveled?

10. When Boesman returns from gathering shelter, what does he suspect Lena's been doing? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the word "identity." What characters search for their identity in Boesman and Lena? How?

Essay Topic 2

What purpose does the character Outa serve to the action and plot of the play? How does he affect the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

What is the effect of producing a show such as Boesman and Lena in the United States, or other countries which no longer have a segregated society? Is there a purpose to reading and producing these works?

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