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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 happens to the deluded peace of a group of regulars at a low-end bar?

2. What does Harry urge the others to do?

3. What does Larry call Parritt?

4. What dies with Harry's wife?

5. What is Larry's comment about the others and their dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hickey's response to Harry comment after the toast? How does this change Harry?

2. What does Joe recall about the days when he ran a successful gambling house?

3. Why does Willie refuse Rocky's drink offer?

4. Why does Hickey kill Evelyn?

5. How does Evelyn feel about Hickey?

6. What does Hickey encourage the down-and-outers to do? What is the result of his encouragement?

7. Why was Bessie angry at McGloin?

8. What does Hickey begin to list?

9. What does Hickey do after he encourages the others to keep drinking?

10. How does Parritt feel about his mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The play is called THE ICEMAN COMETH.

Part 1) Which characters is referred to as the iceman? Why?

Part 2) What does the iceman symbolize?

Part 3) When and how does the "iceman cometh" in the play?

Essay Topic 2

All of the characters have pipe dreams.

Part 1) What is a pipe dream?

Part 2) Name two characters and their pipe dreams.

Part 3) How do they come to realize they have pipe dreams?

Essay Topic 3

Larry and Parritt know one another prior to meeting in the bar.

Part 1) How do they know one another.

Part 2) How does Parritt find Larry? Why is he looking for Larry?

Part 3) What is their relationship like throughout the play?

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