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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. In Scene Four, what does Abe say is the one thing he can count on with Amir?

2. What is the only world Amir say the Quran makes sense in?

3. What reason does Jory give Amir for his failure to be promoted?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened at work that made Amir forget to get wine?

3. What does Amir do to help Abe in Scene 4?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the audience for Disgraced? What is the ideal reader for Disgraced likely to think about the play’s main topics? How does this play try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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