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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 is the time period for THE CHILDREN'S HOUR?

2. Who is Mary's grandmother?

3. What does Mary give to Mrs. Mortar?

4. Who is the second person Mrs. Tilford calls to talk about Karen and Martha's behavior?

5. Who is Mrs. Munn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary symbolize in this good vs. evil drama?

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

3. Why are the adults not concerned about Mary's "heart attack"?

4. Who greets Mary when she arrives at the Tilford home?

5. How does Act 1 end?

6. What is the irony in Mrs. Mortar's name?

7. What does Mary claim that the girls at school have witnessed regarding Karen and Martha?

8. What can be presumed about the source of Mary's cunning behavior?

9. How do Karen and Martha behave in the aftermath of the libel trial?

10. The parents get caught up in the fever of Mary's accusations and Mrs. Tilford's phone calls and neglect to do one thing. What is that one thing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of good versus evil. Identify at least two characters who embody both good and evil and then cite an example to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study on Mrs Tilford. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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