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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 the immediate cause that leads Amir to hit Emily?

2. What does Isaac claim to have done then immediately confess he did not do?

3. Who does Amir guess Isaac has been reading, in order to get his knowledge of Islam?

4. What is Amir drinking in Scene Three, that he offers some to Isaac?

5. How does Abe say that Muslims have been disgraced?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What grounds has Akhtar left the audience, by the end of the play, for feeling that there is a path to virtue and integrity?

4. Why is Emily excited about Isaac and Jory’s visit at the beginning of Scene Three?

5. What does Amir tell Emily he wants for her, at the end, and what is Emily’s response?

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

7. How has Emily’s work been received in the time since the dinner party six months ago, in Scene 3?

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

9. What political position has Abe taken, as a result of the events that brought him back to Amir?

10. What is the significance of Amir’s display of contempt for Isaac, when they are arguing at the end of Scene 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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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