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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 decision does Susan announce at the women's group meeting in the church basement?

2. What is wrong with Heidi and Scoop's relationship?

3. In what city is Heidi during the Prologue?

4. What is Scoop's prediction?

5. Three years after the high school dance, who is Heidi campaigning for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of "Ladies Choice" at the dance?

2. What is Heidi doing at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. What is Heidi and her friend Debbie protesting in 1974?

4. When Fran invites Heidi to share, what does Heidi do?

5. What does Lisa do to save face at her wedding reception?

6. Scoop Rosenbaum takes a sweeping view of Heidi's personality characteristics. Overall, what are Scoop's feelings towards Heidi? What does he admire?

7. Heidi discloses information about herself when mentioning her high school dance. What is that piece of information?

8. How do Heidi and Peter meet?

9. Heidi has one primary belief that seems to carry her throughout the play, including Act 1, Scene 3. What is this belief?

10. By reading the Prologue, what facts do we learn about Heidi and the play in general?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of music throughout the play? Is it music itself that is important or the particular song that is playing?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Scoop is unable to make a serious commitment to anything, until the end of the play?

Essay Topic 3

What initially attracts Peter and Heidi to each other and why do they carry on their life-long friendship?

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