Inheritance Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Inheritance Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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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. According to Walter, what is Henry's attitude toward their relationship?

2. What is the name of the protagonist of Toby's book?

3. What action of Walter's surprises the group of friends and makes them uncomfortable?

4. Which two characters are already married in Act One?

5. Where do Henry, his sons, and Eric have dinner together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Young Man 1 turn to Morgan for help in the play's prologue?

2. After Leo leaves Toby's apartment, what surprising information does Young Man 1 reveal, and how do Morgan and Toby react?

3. What is the symbolic significance of Adam giving Toby back his umbrella?

4. What is at the heart of Eric's nostalgia for the gay community's past?

5. During Eric's birthday brunch, how does Jason 1 turn a nostalgic conversation about the past into a conversation about future goals?

6. When Walter comes to the apartment for dinner, what similarity do he and Eric recognize in their relationships?

7. How do Charles and Paul's attitudes in the hallway after Eric's brunch foreshadow their actions at the end of Act Two?

8. What advice does Henry offer Eric after Eric says that it feels to him as if the world is falling apart?

9. What is in the bag that Adam brings to Eric's apartment during the birthday party, and how does Toby explain the bag's contents?

10. In what sense does Adam feel he might have played a part in Eric and Toby's breakup?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What claims is The Inheritance making about respect for history and its impact on the present? How do Eric's beliefs about stories and writing relate to these claims? How is Lopez's play itself a manifestation of these claims? Write an essay in which you trace the development of the text's thematic motif regarding respect for history and show how this motif is supported by Lopez's action in writing The Inheritance. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the text.

Essay Topic 2

What claims is The Inheritance making about cultural appropriation from the gay community? How does this relate to the part of the play's plot in which Henry and his children try to keep Eric from inheriting what Walter wanted to bequeath him? Why do Eric's and Walter's individual personalities, ages, and beliefs matter in understanding this relationship? How does the class status of Henry and his children mimic the power dynamic between the larger community and the gay community? Write an essay in which you show how the plot regarding the farmhouse illuminates the text's concerns regarding cultural appropriation. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the text.

Essay Topic 3

How do the ghostly figures at the farmhouse relate to the play's messages about community, storytelling, and inheritance? How do the ghosts' identities matter--their membership in community, their generation, and the manner of their deaths? How does their location matter? Why do they appear to Eric, and why all together? What do Eric's actions relative to these men and their stories signify? Write an essay that analyzes how the ghostly figures support the play's ideas about the importance of community and storytelling and that shows how these ideas relate to the play's conception of "inheritance." Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the text.

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