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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. How does Pepel feel about Luka?

2. What part of the wall holds the window(s)?

3. Who had an abusive husband?

4. Who feels that Luka tells pleasant lies to make people feel better?

5. What does Anna do with the food that is offered to her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Pepel, Bubnoff, and Kleshtch say about honor and conscience?

2. What does Satine say in the longest speech?

3. What are the sounds that you hear coming from the first set before the dialogue begins?

4. Who sits at a table drinking at the beginning of the fourth act?

5. Who is caught cheating at the card game?

6. What does Pepel profess to Natasha?

7. What does Kvashnya do for living and what does she loudly proclaim in the first set?

8. What is the Actor's viewpoint on the hospital with the cure during the fourth act?

9. What is the mood that is created by the first set?

10. What does Satine share a story about and how is it received by the others?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write about Luka's second story that he tells the boarders. Why does he tell the story? Who is Luka telling the story to? What is the lesson to be learned from his story?

Essay Topic 2

Write about the exchange between Vassilisa and Pepel and the exchange they had in the second act. What is Vassilisa's initial question to Pepel and what is his response? What business arrangement does she propose to him? Does Pepel accept it?

Essay Topic 3

Kvashnya says, "That not for a hundred baked lobsters would she marry again" in the first act. She then is married by the fourth act. Why do you think that is? What are the contributing factors to her changing her mind? How do you think Kleshtch was able to foreshadow her marriage to Miedviedieff?

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