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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. Who does Maryna dream about on their first night on their land?
2. What does the group decide in their commune meeting in May?
3. What is the name of the theatrical journal in Warsaw?
4. In what is Sarah Bernhardt rumored to sleep?
5. What two pieces is Maryna performing for the third week of her New York engagement?
Short Essay Questions
1. What story does Ryszard write based on the events at the circus? What is his purpose for writing his story?
2. What is the history of the land on which Maryna and her group settle? What is the primary crop of the land?
3. What does Julian's wife, Wanda, do when she arrives on their land? How is this typical of the character as she is portrayed by the narrator?
4. Maryna and her troupe continue their tour across America to packed theatres and adoring audiences. What does Mr Warnock suggest in order to facilitate one night stands across the country? How does this change the tone of her trip across country? What is the name lettered in gold on the car?
5. Edwin Booth talks about his father and his brother, John Booth. What does he reveal about these two important figures in his life?
6. Edwin professes to Maryna that there are no happy endings and that an ending is anticlimactic. What does he mean by this?
7. After their brief affair, Maryna breaks off her relationship with Ryszard and sends him away. Why does Maryna end the relationship? How do each of them react to the rejection?
8. Mr. Warnock uses a devise by which he fills the theatre. What does he do, and why? How does Maryna react to it? Does it work?
9. Ryszard offers to take Bogdan and Maryna on a trip to San Bernardinos. Does Bogdan go on the trip? How does he feel about Maryna and Ryzsard alone on the trip?
10. In Chapter Seven, Bogdan injures himself and cannot come to San Francisco. What happens between Ryszard and Maryna? How do they change? What happens to their relationship by the end of the chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the opening chapter, the narrator says "the past is the biggest country of all" and expresses the wish to set stories in the past. Discuss this quote and it's relevance to the novel.
Essay Topic 2
In the end, Maryna chooses her life with Bogdan over a life with Ryszard. Why does she do this? What does she recognize about herself, Bogdan and Ryszard that makes her decision a clear one for her? Does she speak of sadness or regret over the decision?
Essay Topic 3
When Bogdan and Maryna go to say farewell to Bogdan's grandmother the Countess, she gives them this piece of advice: "don't invent too many reasons for what you have decided to do!" Have Bogdan and Maryna invented many reasons? What are they? Why are they going to America?
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