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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 does Lady Britomart wish for her son?

2. What is the relationship of Barbara and Adolphus Cusins?

3. The Undershaft family business is only passed down to which family members?

4. Mr. Undershaft became wealthy through which means?

5. By which person is Mr. Undershaft most intrigued?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bill Walker attempt to ease his conscience for hitting Jenny Hill and Rummy Mitchens?

2. Describe Snobby Price.

3. Why did Snobby Price lie to the Salvation Army?

4. What is Adolphus Cusins' reason for arriving late?

5. How does Peter Shirley react to Bill Walker's anger?

6. What are the decided travel arrangements to the foundry?

7. What are Mr. Undershaft's ideas about finding an inheritor for the foundry?

8. How does Stephen handle Lady Britomart when she objects to his political career choice?

9. How does Lady Britomart feel about how she is treated by the group?

10. What is the difference between Stephen and Barbara's views of people in the world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The morality of manufacturing weapons is a theme in Major Barbara. Compare and contrast the opposing views on the morality of manufacturing weapons during the early 1900s to today's views of weapons.

Essay Topic 2

Power is a theme that we see in Major Barbara. What are the differing views of the power of money, the power of God and the power of weapons?

Essay Topic 3

Bernard Shaw wrote many other works, including plays and novels. Choose an area of his life that recurs as a theme in his works and write a synopsis of his beliefs on that theme.

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