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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 is Brown embarrassed by?

2. What does Dion need to play a tune on the jukebox?

3. What does Margaret say is the only reason she has stood by Dion?

4. What does Dion's father want to teach Dion the value of?

5. What does Dion tell the boys they must inherit from their mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margaret react to Billy's death?

2. Why does the draftsman think Dion has murdered Billy?

3. Why is Mr. Brown angry at his business partner, Mr. Anthony?

4. How does Billy get away from Margaret's criticisms of him?

5. How does Billy hide Dion's death from Margaret?

6. How does Margaret surprise the two draftsmen?

7. Describe Billy's office.

8. What does the Brown family talk about?

9. How does Dion challenge Billy?

10. What do Margaret's three boys argue about on the pier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the play's dialogue. How does the author's dialogue contribute to the following areas:

1. Character

2. Setting

3. Plot

Essay Topic 3

Compare Billy's character to the person he was at the beginning of the play to the person he is at the end.

1) What did Billy hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2) What events changes Billy's ideas about life?

3) How has Billy's character changed by the end of the novel?

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