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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 did Jim call Tom?

2. What refreshment does Amanda bring in to Laura and Jim?

3. What does Laura ask Jim if he kept up with?

4. Who does Jim comment on when he is reading the news paper?

5. Where does Amanda say that the Candelabrum came from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Laura say to Jim before he recognizes her?

2. What does Jim tell Laura about being old-fashioned?

3. What does Jim say when he realizes that Amanda is making long term plans for him being a caller on Laura?

4. What sights in Chicago does Jim talk about?

5. Why does Amanda say that she is rejuvenated that night?

6. What is the significance of the flowers that Amanda comes in holding after she has changed into her dress?

7. What does Amanda do when the lights go off?

8. What does Amanda tell Jim he has been good for?

9. What does Jim stat might have happened to the light bill Amanda gave to Tom?

10. Why does Jim explain to Amanda that Laura looks so serious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think it is that Amanda try's to control her children the way that she does? Do you believe that she became this way after her husband left or that her behavior caused him to leave. What do you see in the play that makes you think that?

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

When Tom is telling Amanda that Jim is coming over she begins to question him about Jim and if he drinks. Amanda tells Jim that old maids are better off than wives of drunkards. Taking into consideration the time and place do you think that Amanda is right? What would have been the difference between the life of an old maid and the life of a drunkards wife?

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