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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. Where does the family live?

2. What does Maggie call herself?

3. How many children does Mae have?

4. What did the family discuss at dinner which Brick missed?

5. What other advantage do Brick and Maggie have in the inheritance issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Big Daddy's experience with mendacity?

2. Explain how Maggie seizes the opportunity to take control of all the inheritance talk.

3. How does Big Mama react to Gooper and Mae's insensitivity?

4. What is Brick's explanation for his broken ankle?

5. How does Gooper try to segue into discussing Big Daddy's health?

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

7. What is the setting for the opening of the play?

8. 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?

9. What is the setting of Act 2 of the play?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What position does Maggie take with the news of Big Daddy's terminal illness? Explain how she is both sentimental and realistic.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of married women in the 1950s, especially Maggie's frustration that Mae has five children and is pregnant again while Maggie remains childless.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Big Daddy's feelings toward the specific people in his family: Big Mama, Brick, Maggie, Gooper and Mae, Gooper and Mae's five children.

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