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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father Jack say Roberta's tongue is the color of?
(a) Cherries.
(b) Tomato sauce.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Beets.

2. What does the old woman say you use a leaf of beef, an hour of flour, a little gastric sugar?
(a) Boulabaise.
(b) Crepes de Chine.
(c) Venison l'ambret.
(d) Escargot.

3. In The Chairs, how old is the old woman?
(a) 88.
(b) 76.
(c) 92.
(d) 94.

4. What does Mother Jack do to Roberta when she enters?
(a) Sniffs her.
(b) Chokes her.
(c) Shakes her hand.
(d) Shakes her.

5. The old man in the Chairs claims, "all my enemies have been ____ and all my friends have betrayed me."
(a) Heralded.
(b) Vanquished.
(c) Rewarded.
(d) Killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it they used to call the third arrival in The Chairs?

2. What does Jack say upon seeing Roberta II? He wants one who is much more what?

3. All of the characters, except who, could wear masks in Jack, or The Submission?

4. What word does Jacqueline call Jack which truly upsets him in Jack, or The Submission?

5. Who smacks Grandfather Jack in Jack, or The Submission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the opening images of The Chairs.

2. Describe the main characters' interaction with their first guest in The Chairs.

3. What leads to Roberta's entrance? Describe it.

4. What is the absurdist statement in The Chairs?

5. What is the meaning of the end of Jack, or The Submission?

6. What are Jack's first words? What leads up to this?

7. Describe the arrival of the emperor in The Chairs.

8. What happens to the character of The Chairs when their needs are met?

9. Describe the opening scene of Jack, or The Submission.

10. Describe the absurdism of Grandmother and Grandfather Jack.

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