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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 was the topic of THE CRUCIBLE?

2. What is the time period for THE CHILDREN'S HOUR?

3. How have the witnesses viewed the inappropriate behavior?

4. Where has the alleged inappropriate behavior taken place?

5. What does Mrs. Mortar say to Martha in retaliation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Given Mary's behavior so far in the play, what type of home would the reader believe she had been raised in?

2. Why has Mrs. Tilford come to the school?

3. What has prompted Martha to think about her true feelings for Karen?

4. How does the author end the story on a hopeful note?

5. How does Mary pull Rosalie into the questioning about the headmistresses?

6. How does Mary Tilford try to get on Mrs. Mortar's good side?

7. What is the setting of Act 2, Scene 2?

8. What information does Karen share about herself and Mrs. Mortar that agitates Martha?

9. Who are the founders of the Wright-Dobie School?

10. Why is Rosalie coming to spend the night at the Tilford home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the taboo of homosexuality in the 1930s. Compare and contrast homosexuality in America during the 1930s to homosexuality in America today. What major changes have occurred--both positive and negative?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of married women in the 1930s. Conversely, what is the role of unmarried women in the 1930s? What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? Do they have any freedoms that twenty-first century women do not have?

Essay Topic 3

As educators, Karen and Martha have many things in common but are also different in many ways. Compare and contrast Karen and Martha. What similarities do they share? How are they different?

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