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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 can the Actor no longer recall?

2. Which of these people is a part owner of the location of the first set?

3. What does the opening set resemble?

4. Who finds Anna dead?

5. What are the human sounds that can be heard on set?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is caught cheating at the card game?

2. What does Pepel profess to Natasha?

3. How does the play end for the Actor?

4. What is Luka's response to Pepel wondering if he can convince the baron to get on all fours and bark like a dog?

5. What is Natasha's response to Pepel and what does Luka say about it?

6. How did Luka's second story end?

7. What happens when the Baron threatens to strike Nastya?

8. What does Luka do when Vassilisa demands that he leave?

9. How does Kostilyoff put Luka down and what is Luka's response?

10. What does Luka say when Pepel asks him if there is a God?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why do you think Satine is so persistent in wanting to convince the Actor that the information Luka gave him is made up and false? Do you think this was the ultimate cause of the Actor's death?

Essay Topic 3

Write about Luka's first 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?

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