View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura remember about Jim's voice?

2. What does Jim suggest to warm Laura up?

3. What does he ask Laura for?

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

5. What does Amanda say she is doing when she spills the lemonade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sights in Chicago does Jim talk about?

2. What does Amanda blame Laura's weakness on when she comes to the table and has to be taken to the couch?

3. What happens to Laura when she learns who it is that is coming to dinner with Tom?

4. Describe Amanda's mannerisms and look when she enters the the room to talk to Jim and Tom in scene six.

5. What does Jim warn Tom about referring to the conversation with Mr. Mendoza?

6. Why is it that Tom couldn't leave Laura behind?

7. What does Amanda say about the supper that has been prepared?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 ?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the differences between Tom and Laura. What is it about their temperaments that have made them react so differently to Amanda? Do you think it is possible that she treats Laura and Tom differently? If so why and how?

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 626 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample