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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 Dion tell Brown he had destroyed?

2. What does Dion's father want Dion to study at college?

3. What does Cybel say Billy wants her to throw away?

4. What has the doctor told Dion to stop?

5. What kind of wood is Billy's desk made from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Act 1, Scene 2.

2. What do Billy and Dion's parents suggest about Dion and Billy's futures?

3. Describe Margaret in the epilogue?

4. What does Margaret tell Dion about Billy?

5. Why is Billy trying to destroy Dion?

6. How does Billy react to the mask taunting him?

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

8. What does Margaret say she remembers about June months on the pier?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick two characters from the play and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the values of the 1920s.

1. In what way are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes America was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1920s America?

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