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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 does Amir say Imam Fareed tried to get him to do, all the time Amir spent visiting with him in prison?
2. Who does Amir say brought about the studio visit from Isaac in Scene Two?
3. How old is Emily?
4. How does Emily characterize Amir’s position on the imam?
5. How does Akhtar characterize Amir’s English?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Abe’s arrival tell us about how Amir’s career developed?
2. What was the imam Abe is talking about arrested for?
3. What is Amir’s relationship with the painting his wife’s painting is based on?
4. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?
5. What is the importance of Amir modeling for Emily in boxers below, and a fine shirt and suit jacket above?
6. How do Amir and Emily think differently about Amir’s position about Imam Fareed?
7. 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)?
8. How does Emily appropriate Islamic art?
9. What does Amir think his mother would feel about him making partner?
10. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Disgraced is a play that assumes a huge amount of back story and cultural awareness. What are the main historical/cultural narratives Akhtar refers to, and how does he make them personal to the characters? Are these characters proxies for a cultural battle? Are they victims of a larger battle between people’s cultural assumptions? Does anyone achieve any freedom from those assumptions, in the end?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the important of Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja n Disgraced. Why is this painting so important? How does its importance differ between characters? How does Amir’s sense of the painting change over the course of the play?
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