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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 does Ani threaten to do if Eddie does not allow her to mail his belongings?

2. What do non-italicized parentheses within the play indicate?

3. Which character is noted to have a "speech pattern that manifests itself in a kind of halted way of speaking" (6)?

4. John describes his cerebral palsy as feeling like what action is taking place beneath his skin?

5. Ani declares that Eddie's girlfriend must have what quality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ani say will happen if her fingers are not kept flat upon her wheelchair pad?

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

3. What is one theme represented within one of the three quotes within the Epigraph section?

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

5. How does the motif of music arise in Scene Two?

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

7. What is the setting of Scene One?

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

9. What is the symbolism of the light therapy box discussed in Scene Two?

10. What impetus has brought Eddie to the bar in Brooklyn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Martyna Majok begins the play with three different quotes making up the Epigraphs section of the text. Explain how the contents of Epigraphs section relate to the play and how they reflect the play's major themes.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Martyna Majok’s messages concerning the pursuit of personal security. Does Majok indicate that the pursuit of personal security is dangerous? Crucial? Elusive? Choose one adjective to represent Majok’s intended message regarding the pursuit of personal security and prove its validity using concrete details from the play.

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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