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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 much longer has Amir been at the firm than Jory?

2. How many of Emily’s paintings will Isaac show in the museum?

3. What is the immediate cause that leads Amir to hit Emily?

4. In Scene Three, when discussing art, what does Emily say Islam is still connected to?

5. How does Isaac want to present Emily’s approach to Islam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we learn about Isaac when Amir asks him if he eats pork?

2. What is the tone of the dinner party Amir and Emily host with Isaac and Jory?

3. What knife does Jory stick into Amir on her way out the door?

4. What does Amir propose to Jory in Scene 3?

5. How is Abe’s appearance in Scene 4 different from his entrance in Scene 1?

6. How does Emily compare the Renaissance in the West and Islamic culture?

7. What caused Amir to change his name?

8. What is Amir likely seeing at the end of the play when he looks at the portrait Emily made of him, based on Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja?

9. What causes Isaac to tell Emily that she will make the “mistake in London” again?

10. What historical circumstance complicates the question of Amir’s nationality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is missing from this play? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the play stronger.

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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