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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 do Midge and Nat relate about their dreams?

2. Which character uses a cane in the first act?

3. What is Clara's profession?

4. Who is the Head of the Tenants' Committee where Midge lives?

5. How old is Nat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Nat tell the Cowboy he and Midge work from? Who do they work for?

3. How does Midge try to stop the Cowboy from hurting Nat?

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

5. What is Nat's fear about Clara? Why?

6. Why does Nat have marijuana? How did he obtain it?

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

8. What is Midge's fear about his job? Why?

9. What is Midge's reaction to the mugging by Gilley? What does he think about Nat's treatment of the situation?

10. Describe Midge's character. What does he look like? How is his appearance different from Nat's?

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

What are the differences in beliefs and ideals that Nat and Midge have on romance, love, and sex? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the journey that Nat has gone through in the course of the play. How has Midge changed him? What elements of his personality are altered and why?

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