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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. How long has the restaurant that Li'l Bit and Peck are dining at been open?

2. Where does Li'l Bit and Peck have a celebration dinner at in 1968?

3. Li'l Bit asks her mother and grandmother something about sex, but receives conflicting answers. What does she ask?

4. What does Peck compare Li'l Bit's breasts to?

5. According to Peck, how are women taught to drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the character of Li'l Bit introduce the first scene?

2. What views on women does Peck share with Li'l Bit as he does the dishes?

3. Why does Li'l Bit tell Peck to stop being bad during the first scene?

4. What does Vogel transition from the scene with the three females in the kitchen talking about sex, to Li'l Bit's first driving lesson.

5. What trick does Jerome play on Li'l Bit?

6. When Li'l Bit goes on the bus ride as an older woman, does she intend to seduce the young man who sits next to her on the bus?

7. Is Li'l Bit worried about Peck at the Christmas dinner?

8. During the hotel room scene, what does Li'l Bit do with the champagne?

9. Explain Peck's theory of "fire" and people.

10. Why does Li'l Bit describe herself as cynical in 1969?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Give examples of the traditional sexual and gender roles and how they shift during the play.

Essay Topic 2

Mother and Grandma have different attitudes about sex. Explain what they are and why they're so different.

Essay Topic 3

In the first scene, who is behaving more as the adult and who is behaving more as the child? Show your reasoning.

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