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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. To what animal is Ani compared within a metaphor explaining her personality?

2. What does Jess do in order to cause John's body to "spasm and splay" (64)?

3. Ani sarcastically tells Eddie that she has been thinking about trying what activity to improve her mood?

4. What part of Jess's resume does John say is lengthy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways is Scene Two similar to Scene One, in terms of theme and structure?

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

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

5. What is the significance of Eddie's comment that he could hold off on the divorce papers?

6. For what purpose has Jess come to John's apartment in Scene One?

7. What is the setting of Scene One?

8. What suggestions does Eddie have for Ani the second he walks into her new accessible apartment?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jess's role within the events of the play and explain how her character helps to further develop certain themes inherent in Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the effects of stress on the play's characters and the coping methods each character uses to deal with emotional turmoil. Which characters' methods are effective, which are ineffective, and how do these varying levels of efficiency affect the messages sent by the play?

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