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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 Midge pretend to do when he first sees Nat in Act 2?

2. How did Nat become injured?

3. What does Nat say he gets from the back door at the Plaza Hotel every morning?

4. What does Nat say is his cover-story?

5. What did Nat have waiting on the street when Clara got out of jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Laurie owe the Cowboy money?

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

3. What does Dartforth come to understand after his conversation with Nat?

4. How does the confrontation with the Cowboy change Midge?

5. What are the code names of Midge and Nat? Why must Midge be there?

6. What did Midge do after Nat was attacked? What is his explanation?

7. What is Clara's frustration with Nat?

8. What does Midge have of the Cowboy's? What does he view it as?

9. Who is Laurie? What does she look like? What does she carry with her? How does she interact with the protagonists?

10. Who is Dr. Engels? What is the story behind this "character?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The ending scene of I'm Not Rappaport is an "open ending." What does this mean? Where do you believe the characters will end up after the curtain falls? Supply textual evidence to support your claim.

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

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