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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 does Don provide for the hotel guests?

2. Where are Mr. and Mrs. Cherry from?

3. What does the captain speculate at the end of the first act?

4. What has Don disgruntled at the beginning of the play?

5. As Weber explains to Irene, what is vulnerable now that the planes have left?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the captain announce at the end of Act 1, and how does Harry respond?

2. What does Irene tell Harry about her fate at the hotel and why does she believe it to be true?

3. What does Weber tell Irene about the planes and how is it significant?

4. What is interesting about the exchange between Irene and the captain towards the end of the play?

5. How does Irene respond to Harry's notion that the two had met before and what does it mean?

6. What are some of Irene's surprising comments about air raids?

7. What is Weber's decision in Act 3, and how does it affect Irene's fate?

8. What effect does the appearance of Italian soldiers have on the hotel, and what do the soldiers do to surprise them?

9. What is Irene telling Harry about in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3?

10. What is it about Irene that Harry reveals as the reason he recognizes her, and why is this important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the conversation between Irene and Weber in Act 2, Scene 2.

1) What are Weber's views on war and how do they fit into his business plans? What does that say about his character and how does it give the audience clues about what he is capable of later in the play?

2) How does Irene respond to Weber's business and what is surprising about it? Explain the possible motives for why she responds this way and what they signify for her character.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Quillery's actions in the second scene of Act 2. What has him so enraged? Do you think he is justified? Why or why not? Also, describe what happens to him and what that represents for the theme of having characters reflect the war.

Essay Topic 3

Irene is a central character in the play and the impact of her arrival can be felt immediately.

1) How does Irene cause the other guests to take notice of her? Describe three examples of how her character maintains a level of intrigue and mystery that sets her apart.

2) What is it about the hotel that impresses Irene? What is the significance of the view she appreciates in the main window and how does it foreshadow future events in the play?

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