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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. Which character claims he was a boxer in his youth?

2. What does Midge say the lady from 2A saw him do last week?

3. Where did Nat go to the emergency room?

4. What does Midge mistake the lamppost for?

5. What item of the thug's does Midge have in Act 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Midge injure himself in Act 1? How does Nat react?

2. What did Midge tell the staff at the hospital regarding Nat?

3. Describe the setting in Act 1.

4. What does Nat do at the end of the play? Why?

5. What happened to Midge in Act 2, Scene 3? How long has he been away?

6. Describe the appearance of Nat. What does he wear in Act 1? How does he move?

7. What is Nat's reaction to being mugged by Gilley? Why?

8. What is Midge's reaction to Nat's "truth?"

9. What is Nat's plan for "dealing with" Dartforth? How does he go about it?

10. What has led up to Nat and Midge pretending to be gangsters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character Laurie. What does she represent to Midge and Nat? What does she represent to the play as a whole (allegorically, symbolically)?

Essay Topic 2

Describe who Clara was named after. What is the meaning of this story that Nat tells? How does it relate his character as well as hers?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the character of the Cowboy. What might he represent allegorically? How does he play into the plot of I'm Not Rappaport?

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