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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 say his mother would react, if she knew his name was going to be on his law firm?

2. How does Emily characterize Amir’s position on the imam?

3. How does Abe dismiss Amir’s feelings about Islam as a religion?

4. How old is Amir?

5. How does the playwright characterize the tension between Amir and Emily in Isaac’s presence in Scene Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Scene Two build on the resolution of Scene One, where Amir said that he would think about speaking for Imam Fareed?

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

5. What do we learn about Amir’s career when the phone rings, interrupting the painting session?

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

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

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

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

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

How would you rewrite Disgraced, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What parts of the play would you preserve? What parts would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Disgraced. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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