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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. Who does Emily know, who worked at this investment bank?

2. What neighborhood is Amir and Emily’s apartment in?

3. What does Amir say his relationship with Mort is like?

4. What does Amir think will cause readers of the text he is reading to will look at, and jump to conclusions about him?

5. How does the playwright characterize Isaac’s looking around while Emily is getting him coffee in Scene Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Emily mean when she invokes Goldman Sachs in the discussion about the imam?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Evaluate your own reading of Disgraced—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the play to describe yourself as a reader.

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