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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 literary technique does Kopit use in the final few lines of Scene 1?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Irony.

2. Which character is best described as wealthy, bossy, and eccentric?
(a) Rosalie.
(b) The first bellboy.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Madame Rosepettle.

3. Who does Madame Rosepettle plan to meet at the end of Scene 1?
(a) Jonathan's father.
(b) Rosalie.
(c) Commodore Roseabove.
(d) Her ex-husband.

4. In what year is this play written?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1981.
(d) 2009.

5. What does Madame Rosepettle's piranha eat?
(a) Salad.
(b) Cats.
(c) Shrimp.
(d) Steak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object are the men moving into the hotel room?

2. Where does the play take place?

3. When Madame Rosepettle asks Jonathan to do something, what does he do?

4. How are the men described as they try to figure out what to do with the object?

5. When Madame Rosepettle speaks to her son, how does he answer her?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Jonathan kill Rosalie?

2. Why did Madame Rosepettle decide to marry Albert Rosepettle?

3. Why do you think Madame Rosepettle never wants Jonathan to leave the hotel room?

4. What does the commodore think when Madame Rosepettle tells him about her husband?

5. What does Madame Rosepettle want to teach Jonathan about how to treat other people?

6. Why does Madame Rosepettle get upset with the bellboys at the end of Scene 1?

7. Why does Jonathan offer to make a telescope for Rosalie? Does this desire make sense?

8. How is Rosalie's loneliness described in Scene 2?

9. How does Madame Rosepettle react to the commodore?

10. What are your initial perceptions of Rosalie?

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