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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 character comes into the room to talk to Dion?

2. What is the name of the character O'Neill describes as pretty and vivacious?

3. What book is Dion reading from?

4. What does Cybel ask Dion to state?

5. In what part of Brown's office does Act 2, Scene 2 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Billy confide to Dion's mask?

2. How does Margaret surprise the two draftsmen?

3. Summarize Act 4, Scene 1.

4. Summarize Act 3, Scene 2.

5. In what way does the Anthony family contrast to the Brown family?

6. Summarize Act 3, Scene 3.

7. Why did Cybel take Dion into her house?

8. Summarize Act 1, Scene 2.

9. Why are Margaret and Dion struggling to live?

10. How does Cybel's mask hide who she is in reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the public react to the play when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar play today?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the play's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1920s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the play if it were set in today's society?

Essay Topic 3

What problems do Billy and Dion's generation face? How are the problems for Billy and Dion's generation different to the problems his father's generation face? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

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