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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yang's song say will roll up the stream?

2. Why is Shui Ta dizzy?

3. What does Wong ask the God to do in his dream?

4. What does Shui Ta read in the shop?

5. What does Shu Fu tell Shen Te to use the check for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Brecht ens the play with Shen Te screaming for help? Do the students think he could have ended the play in another way? What meaning would that new ending have given the play?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Shen Te's character to the person she is at the beginning of the play to the person she is at the end.

1. What does Shen Te hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2. What events change Shen Te's ideas about life?

3. How has Shen Te's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Brecht greatly influenced popular culture. Choose a book, film or play that you think Brechtian technique and discuss its similarities with The Good Person of Szechuan in terms of the following:

1. Plot.

2. Character.

3. Themes.

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