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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 has Imam Fareed been arrested for?

2. In Scene Two, why is Amir irritated with Emily when Isaac comes in?

3. What does Isaac appreciate about Islamic art now, in Scene Two?

4. How does Emily say Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja differs from his paintings of kings and queens?

5. Where does Abe say Amir was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can we understand about Abe by his appearance when he appears in Amir and Emily’s apartment?

2. What is the significance of the stage direction indicating that Amir speaks with a flawless accent?

3. What is the importance of the statue of Siva on the mantelpiece?

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

5. What does the stage set tell us about the social class Amir Kapoor and Emily Hughes-Kapoor are in?

6. Why is there confusion over Abe’s name?

7. What is the importance of Amir modeling for Emily in boxers below, and a fine shirt and suit jacket above?

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

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

10. What part of the news article about Amir is Amir angry about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Disgraced. What is this play’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Are Amir and Emily tragic figures? What do they lose, and why do they lose it? How do they draw our sympathies out? What new awareness do they arrive at in the end? What new awareness do they bring the audience to?

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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