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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 is Michael doing as the play begins?

2. At what is Harold laughing as Act 1 ends?

3. Where does Michael take Alan?

4. What lifts Donald's spirits?

5. What is the setting as the play opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Harold leave the party?

2. What do the men do as they wait for the other guests to arrive?

3. How does Michael ask his guests to behave when Alan arrives?

4. What clues do Larry and Donald give that they had had an intimate relationship?

5. What insight does Donald share about what he has learned in therapy?

6. Why are Hank's game points in question after he makes the phone call in Affairs of the Heart?

7. What are Donald's plans to end the evening?

8. What happens that makes Hank angry with Larry?

9. Explain how Michael continues to taunt Alan after the game breaks up.

10. Who turns the tables on Michael and holds him up to scrutiny?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Project into the future ten years after the end of the play and write a brief synopsis for the lives of four of the characters. Be sure to incorporate personal, political and cultural impacts on the characters' lives.

Essay Topic 2

The play takes place in the late 1960s as America is experiencing free love, war protests and radical shifts in music. Research this period in America and create a multimedia presentation of the clothes, food, music and people during this time.

Essay Topic 3

Michael's apartment almost becomes a character in the book because it plays such an important role in the story. Explain how an inanimate object can be a character in a story and how the house "interacted" with the "other" characters. Cite three examples to support your claim.

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