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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do non-italicized parentheses within the play indicate?
(a) Active silences.
(b) Words intended but unspoken.
(c) That the dialogue is meant to be spoken aloud.
(d) Overlapping lines.

2. Which character is noted to have a "speech pattern that manifests itself in a kind of halted way of speaking" (6)?
(a) Jess.
(b) John.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Ani.

3. Ani is described as a woman whose "world has not extended very far beyond" what area?
(a) West Jersey.
(b) South Jersey.
(c) North Jersey.
(d) North Jersey.

4. Once Eddie leaves Ani alone in her apartment, what activity does she undertake?
(a) She mimes playing the piano with her mobile fingers.
(b) She cries.
(c) She calls her nurse.
(d) She recites poetry she has memorized.

5. Toward the end of the Prologue, Eddie laments that he has been "stood up" (17) by what?
(a) A friend.
(b) An older woman.
(c) A ghost.
(d) An enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The playwright includes a note that disabled characters should be cast in which two roles?

2. John reports to Jess that many of his "joints feel like" (62) what?

3. A sudden awareness of what superstition causes Eddie to exclaim, "Oh shit" (34) at the start of Scene Two?

4. How old is John?

5. What cringe-worthy compliment does Eddie give to Ani, causing him to take an action to punish himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What simile does John use to describe what having cerebral palsy feels like?

2. In what ways does Scene Two contrast with Scene One, in terms of theme and structure?

3. What is the setting of the Prologue?

4. What story does Jess finally tell John to placate him?

5. In what way does Majok instruct the reader to interpret the word "fuckin" (6) within the dialogue of the play?

6. What do Ani's text messages to Eddie during their marriage symbolize?

7. How is Jess's character described within the character notes at the start of Scene One?

8. What evidence lies within Scene Two that suggests that Ani has hope of regaining her physical proclivities?

9. For what reason has Eddie come to Ani's apartment in Scene Two?

10. What does Eddie do for a living?

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