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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jimmy angry about Allison's letter?

2. Why does Cliff leave the apartment?

3. What does Allison say she did many times before turning back home?

4. Who takes Alison's suitcase to the car?

5. Which character states that he/she misses Allison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look Back In Anger is seen as the starting point for a movement coined by the press as the Angry Young Man.

1) In what way is Jimmy Porter the archetypal Angry Young Man?

2) Why is it so important to the play that Jimmy Porter is a working class character?

Essay Topic 2

Using two examples from the play, argue the following statement: "John Osborne's lack of sympathy for the upper and middle classes makes Jimmy Porter into an unlikable and bitter character."

Essay Topic 3

How influential was Look Back in Anger on British popular culture at the time? How had British society and popular culture worked up to such an explosion portrayal of British working class life?

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