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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. With whom does Suzy enter the hotel lobby?

2. What does Mr. Katz tell Mr. Morse?

3. Why is Mr. Morse getting a cold?

4. What is Bill trying to maintain among all these distractions?

5. What does Jackie do at Bill's request that she not do it?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does April complain?

2. Why is Jackie glad Mr. Katz is there?

3. How does Jackie continue to annoy Mr. Katz? What does she tell the others?

4. How does Mr. Katz show that she is correct?

5. How does Suzy leave?

6. How does Millie try to distract Paul?

7. What happens when the Girl gets a phone call from her pimp?

8. How does Act 2 open?

9. What does the Girl come back into the lobby and tell Mr. Katz about the hotel management company?

10. How does Mrs. Bellotti react when she cannot persuade Mr. Katz to let her son stay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bill suggests that the Girl distribute the mail in the residents' mailboxes.

Part 1) What is in the mail for all the residents?

Part 2) What does this mail foreshadow?

Part 3) How is the mood of the play affected by this mail? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The play was written in 1973.

Part 1) When is this play supposed to take place? Does it seem like that, as you read it? Why or why not?

Part 2) Could this play take place at any time? Why or why not?

Part 3) What updates would you make to the play? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Three of the characters are prostitutes.

Part 1) Describe these characters.

Part 2) Why might be the reason for the playwright making them prostitutes?

Part 3) Do these prostitutes act how you would expect a prostitute to act? Why or why not?

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