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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 offers Anna food?

2. What does Satine tell a story about?

3. There were two characters that played cards. Which name from the names below name one of the card-playing characters?

4. Who shakes Kostilyoff violently?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is off about Nastya's story?

4. What happens with Kleshtch in the second act?

5. What is Luka's first story about?

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

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

8. What is Anna's health issue?

9. Who offers Anna food and what does Anna do with the food?

10. What do Kleshtch and Tartar say about Luka?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Tell about the situation at the beginning of the third act when Nastya is telling her love story. Why do you think Nastya keeps telling this same story repeatedly? Why do Bubnoff and the Baron ridicule her about her story? Who sticks up for Nastya?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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