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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 city is Disgraced set in?

2. What year is the beginning of the play set in?

3. What class are Amir and Emily in, based on their furnishings?

4. Who does Amir say Emily should get to pose for this portrait?

5. How did Amir’s mother drive home her point about Rivkah to Amir?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the juxtaposition we se, in the phone calls Amir takes, back-to-back, while Emily is painting him?

2. How has Emily’s family handled her choice of men?

3. What is Amir’s relationship with the painting his wife’s painting is based on?

4. Explain the difference between earnestness and irony as Emily describes it in her discussion with Isaac.

5. What does Amir think his mother would feel about him making partner?

6. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?

7. What is Amir’s relationship with Mort like?

8. What is Emily’s relationship with the Velázquez painting?

9. What does Abe mean when he says that Amir had to go “the other way” for a while (15)?

10. How do Amir and Emily think differently about Amir’s position about Imam Fareed?

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

What is the role of women in Disgraced? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Akhtar’s depiction of women in this play?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the ending of Disgraced. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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