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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. Which of the following was Jim not involved in during high school?

2. Why does Amanda tell Laura that Amanda won't answer the door when Tom gets home?

3. What reason did Amanda say the church, that the Candelabrum came from, was destroyed for?

4. Where did Tom know Jim from before the warehouse?

5. What day did Amanda wear her dress for her gentlemen callers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Amanda tell Tom to go when he announces he is leaving?

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

5. What was it that made Jim and Tom friends at the warehouse?

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

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

8. What does Amanda do as soon as Jim has left the house?

9. What does Jim remember about Laura from school as apposed to what she remembers.

10. What does Tom tell Jim about The Union of Merchant Seamen?

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

Do you believe that Jim felt anything for Laura? If so what did he do or say to make you think that he did? If not why do you think he kissed Laura?

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