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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 action does Eddie take within the Prologue whenever he talks about his late wife?
2. What is John's first guess regarding Jess's major at Princeton?
3. Jess reports that her mother had come to the United States without what item?
4. The playwright includes a note that disabled characters should be cast in which two roles?
5. Toward the end of the Prologue, Eddie laments that he has been "stood up" (17) by what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What final question does John ask Jess before he offers her a job?
2. What does Eddie do for a living?
3. In what ways does Scene Two contrast with Scene One, in terms of theme and structure?
4. How is Jess's character described within the character notes at the start of Scene One?
5. What is one theme represented within one of the three quotes within the Epigraph section?
6. What impetus has brought Eddie to the bar in Brooklyn?
7. What does Ani say will happen if her fingers are not kept flat upon her wheelchair pad?
8. What story does Jess finally tell John to placate him?
9. What do Ani's text messages to Eddie during their marriage symbolize?
10. How does the motif of music arise in Scene Two?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of isolation with Martyna Majok’s play Cost of Living. What messages is she sending about the nature of isolation and about its costs?
Essay Topic 2
What is Martyna Marjok's message about the relationship between poverty and privilege within her play Cost of Living?
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the play, the last set of stage directions reads that after Eddie invites Jess in again, “She takes off her hat. And takes one step inside. Toward Eddie. He takes one step toward her. Two people stand together in a fading light” (152). How does this final set of stage directions connect to the themes inherent to the play?
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