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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 many children does Mae have?

2. What is the setting for the play's opening act?

3. What is Maggie's purpose for entering the room?

4. Why is the play's name attributed to that character?

5. What does Maggie offer Brick as some relief from the summer heat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Big Daddy react when Brick tells him of his medical prognosis?

2. What is Big Mama's reason for abruptly entering Brick and Maggie's bedroom?

3. What is Big Mama's reaction after learning of Bid Daddy's terminal cancer diagnosis?

4. What medicinal precautions does Doctor Baugh take before leaving the Pollitt home?

5. Explain why it is difficult for Maggie to have any privacy with Brick in their bedroom.

6. What are Big Mama's observations of Big Daddy's evening?

7. What is the official start of Big Daddy's birthday party?

8. How does Big Daddy indicate that he is back in control of running the plantation?

9. Maggie must change her dress which has been soiled by one of Gooper and Mae's children. What does Maggie think of the children and what does she call them?

10. What are Maggie's thoughts about Big Daddy's birthday which will be his last?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the taboo of homosexuality in the 1950s, especially as it related to popular athletes like Brick and Skipper.

Essay Topic 2

What revelation does Big Mama make that ultimately breaks the tension related to the Pollitt inheritance? How do Gooper and Mae react to it? How do Brick and Maggie react to it?

Essay Topic 3

Define mendacity. How does Brick define it in his life? How does Big Daddy define it in his?

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