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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 is Jory’s race?

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

3. Who calls Amir just as Emily is trying to defuse a tense conversation about racial profiling in Scene Three?

4. What is Amir’s tone at the start of Scene Four?

5. How is Abe’s wardrobe different when he enters in Scene Four than it was when he entered in Scene One?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Emily mean when she says, in Scene 4, that her work was naïve?

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

4. What is the significance of Abe’s arrival at the end of Scene 3?

5. In Scene 4, Amir says that Emily was right about him: what was she right about?

6. Are Abe’s accusations in Scene 4 fair?

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

8. What is the meaning of the play’s title, in light of this final confrontation between Amir and Abe?

9. What has happened in the intervening time between Scenes 3 and 4?

10. What is it that brings Abe and Emily back to Amir’s apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages from the play.

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Disgraced. What is this play’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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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