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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. How does Amir’s boss Mort think he can lower his cholesterol?

2. Where does Abe say Amir was born?

3. How does Amir characterize the subject of the painting Emily is basing her painting on?

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

5. How does the text Amir reads from in Scene Two characterize the group of attorneys surrounding Imam Fareed?

Short Essay Questions

1. As seen in Scene 2, what is Isaac’s importance to Emily?

2. What was the imam Abe is talking about arrested for?

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

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

5. How does “submission” factor into Islamic art, according to Emily in her discussion with Isaac?

6. What do we learn about Emily when Amir tells her that she should have her black Spanish boyfriend sit for her?

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

8. How has Isaac’s mind recently changed about Emily’s work, as seen in Scene 2?

9. 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)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Disgraced? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this play. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Disgraced.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the title of Disgraced. How is it used in the text? How does it apply within the context of its use? How else does it apply to the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Disgraced? What is the ideal reader for Disgraced likely to think about the play’s main topics? How does this play try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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