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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. When does Amanda tell Tom she will speak to him?
2. What does Amanda do with Laura's typewriter keyboard diagram?
3. Why does Amanda want Laura to stay fresh and pretty?
4. What does Amanda say about Tom breaking Laura's glass menagerie?
5. What does Amanda tell Tom she believes he has been doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Tom's role in the play?
2. Amanda doesn't believe that Tom goes to the movies every night. What does she allude to that she believes Tom is doing?
3. Why does Laura want Tom to apologize to Amanda?
4. In what way does Amanda tell Tom she wouldn't mind him emulating his father?
5. What is the significance of Malvolio the Magician that Tom watches perform?
6. At the end of scene three what does Tom say to Amanda that makes her angry?
7. How is the play conducted to show that it is a memory?
8. Why are some of the things Tom and Amanda fighting at the start of scene three?
9. When and where does the story take place?
10. How does Amanda describe the majority of her suitors and what became of them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
After Tom leaves the apartment he sees Amanda talking to Laura and Laura smiles at her mother. Do you think that Amanda was able to say anything to comfort Laura? What do you believe Amanda said given what we know of her nature?
Essay Topic 3
What was the significance in the story of showing that Amanda goes to D.A.R. meetings? Amanda mentioned a position that she was getting when she happened to stop into Laura's college. What kind of position do you think she would have been inducted ?
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