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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 Amanda wearing when Tom and her enter the dinning room?

2. What was it that Jim called Laura in high school?

3. Who is the boy that Laura states she liked once?

4. What is the gentleman's position at the warehouse?

5. When Laura offers to clear the table what activities does Amanda suggest she go do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amanda ask Tom to do for Laura?

2. Describe what Amanda wears to her D.A.R. meetings.

3. What reasons are discussed for the lack of gentlemen callers that Laura will be receiving that evening in scene one?

4. What does Tom tell Amanda that they are going to have the following night?

5. Describe the places where Laura visits while she was supposed to be in her college classes.

6. Why do you think Tom apologizes to Amanda?

7. At the end of scene three what does Tom say to Amanda that makes her angry?

8. When and where does the story take place?

9. What is Tom's role in the play?

10. What are some of the things Tom lists that he hates about the warehouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on what we know of the characters and the stories told about the father what kind of personality can you deduct that he may have had? Describe how you think the courting process went between Amanda and her husband. If you think it is contrary to Amanda's stories then explain why.

Essay Topic 2

Tom describes the play as being dimly lighted, sentimental and not realistic with music to accompany everything that happens because it is a memory. Do you that these characteristics help to prove the fact that it is a memory? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Tom says that in high school Jim was a hero and names off all his accomplishments. Does Jim become a hero after visiting the Wingfield residence? What occurs to bring you to this conclusion?

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