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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. Which western artist does Emily point to as someone whose work was influenced by Islamic art?
2. How does the text Amir is reading in Scene Two characterize Imam Fareed’s tone?
3. Why was the waiter “a dick” to Amir and Emily (7)?
4. Why does Abe ask whether he should come back, when he arrives at Amir and Emily’s apartment?
5. How is Disgraced performed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?
2. What do we learn about Amir and Emily’s relationship when Emily tells Amir that she happens to know he “likes it a little fucked up,” meaning that there is something odd about painting him after a painting of a slave (9)?
3. How does Abe’s arrival tell us about how Amir’s career developed?
4. What do we learn about Amir’s career when the phone rings, interrupting the painting session?
5. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?
6. What can we understand about Abe by his appearance when he appears in Amir and Emily’s apartment?
7. What is the significance of the stage direction indicating that Amir speaks with a flawless accent?
8. How has Emily’s family handled her choice of men?
9. How do Amir and Emily think differently about Amir’s position about Imam Fareed?
10. How does Emily appropriate Islamic art?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
This play suggests numerous alternative titles, such as Impossible Heroes of A Different Message. Evaluate each one, in terms of how well it would apply to the content of the play, and explain the author’s choice of Disgraced over the others.
Essay Topic 2
Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages from the play.
Essay Topic 3
While talking about Islam and her art, Emily expresses the sentiment that people spend too much time focused on optics, and have “forgotten to look at things for what they really are” (31). Is this the closest thing the play gives us, by way of a rule for living or seeing? Is the tragedy of the play that none of the characters can live up to Emily’s vision? Or is it that even Emily’s pronouncement is insufficient, as she herself says, when she says later that she was naïve?
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