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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 appears to be the relationship between Will and Carl?

2. What did Bo or Virgil do that Will wants them to fix?

3. How does Bo react to what Will is saying?

4. What decade does this play occur during?

5. Why does Will suggest that Carl wake up the passengers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cherie feel about and respond to what Bo has told her?

2. What does Cherie ask Grace and Elma as soon as she enters the cafe?

3. Why does Cherie's resistance astound Bo?

4. What does Dr. Lyman think about love and people?

5. What does Bo ask Cherie before he heads out to the bus and what is her response?

6. What foods does Bo order?

7. What were Grace and Carl doing at the beginning of Act 3?

8. What does Will come into the restaurant to tell everyone?

9. What excuse does Grace use so that she can go to her apartment and meet Carl?

10. What does Carl tell Will when Will suggests he wake up all of the passengers on the bus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does Bo further alienate Cherie? Does he intend for his actions to be interpreted this way? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How did the author develop the relationship between Grace and Carl? Do you believe it was clearly developed? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What judgments do you make about the character Dr. Lyman? On what do you base these judgments? Do you believe he would have been a good teacher? Why or why not?

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