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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. In what state does the family live?

2. According to Maggie, you can be young without ______________ but you cannot be old without it.

3. What does Maggie call Mae's children?

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

5. What does Big Daddy think of Brick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Maggie fulfilled her role as a cat on a hot tin roof?

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

3. What does Maggie say to Brick after everyone else has left their room?

4. How does Brick respond to Maggie's claims of loneliness?

5. What is the real truth about Big Daddy's health?

6. Explain the irony in Brick's relationship with Skipper.

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

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

9. Why does Brick try several times to leave the room and escape conversation with Big Daddy?

10. How does Brick make Big Daddy face the truth about his own life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What name does Maggie invent for Gooper and Mae's children? What does this name indicate about Maggie's feelings toward Gooper and Mae? Toward children in general? Toward her own childlessness?

Essay Topic 2

Why have Gooper and Mae foregone their normal hiatus to the Great Smoky Mountains this year? Why do they think it is a critical time for them to spend time at the Pollitt plantation?

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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