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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In addition to herself, who does Bananas plead with Billy to help?
2. How has Artie ignored Ronnie throughout Ronnie's life?
3. What does Bunny insist that Billy do when she comes up from her apartment?
4. What does Bananas end up swallowing thinking that it is her pills?
5. What does Artie know after the nuns announce that there is a choirboy in their room?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the final scene of The House of Blue Leaves, the Little Nun describes an orchard being a metaphor for life. What is the significance of this is relation to the rest of the characters and the play? Use specific information and quotes from the text to support your response.
Essay Topic 2
Artie sets the precedent in the Prologue for talking directly to the audience, which the rest of the characters do throughout the play. Nontraditional in plays until The House of Blue Leaves, discuss the significance of breaking the fourth wall and its significance to this play. Without this tactic, would the play be the same? Use specific information and quotes from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
The end of The House of Blue Leaves is characterized by new beginnings. The characters involved in the final scene experience new beginnings that are mostly positive. Artie is the only character that does not, although he is the one character who yearned for it the most. Discuss the final scene, what these new beginnings are, what they mean, and why Artie is the only one who is left alone in a well constructed thesis paper. Use information and quotes from the play to support your answer.
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