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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 is the setting of Scene 12?
2. What it the setting of Scene 6?
3. How many women has Marc slept with since he got married?
4. In what year does Scene 6 take place?
5. In Madame Butterfly, what is it that Butterfly fears from the Western man?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Toulon choose to put forth Gallimard's choices and opinions to his superiors in intelligence instead of his own?
2. Why does Gallimard believe God is a man?
3. How has Helga's opinion on China changed when she and Gallimard return to France?
4. How does Song's opinion of Madame Butterfly differ from Gallimard's?
5. What is Song's opinion on how managed to change Gallimard's destiny?
6. Why is Song's invitation to for Gallimardto enter her apartment so serious for her?
7. What are Chin's plans for Song after her time in the commune?
8. How do Gallimard and his wife agree in regards to their opinion of the Chinese people?
9. What is the nature of Gallimard's experiment with Song? Why does he decide to treat her in this fashion?
10. How does Marc's marriage and his treatment of women and that of Gallimard's differ?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Marc and Gallimard have different points of view on the definition of infidelity and the morals involved with it. Write an essay comparing and contrasting Gallimard and Marc and their view and treatment of women.
1. How does Marc know Gallimard? What is the nature of their relationship? During their friendship, how did their lives differ? More specifically, what were their places within their social circle?
2. How did Marc view women in his youth? How did he treat them? Did this change after he got married? How do these characteristics differ from Gallimard's? How are they similar?
3. What kind of life did Marc lead while Gallimard was in China? How did their relationship change during the course of the play? How did Gallimard conjured image of Marc affect his actions in the play?
Essay Topic 2
Much of the characters' are driven by the culture they came from. There is a distinct role that the social backdrop plays in the storyline.
1. Describe the nature of the cultures that surrounds Hwang's story. Most noticeably, the Chinese and French influences. Is there any other cultures that have a personality within the plot? What are some of the characteristics we associate with each culture and how does Hwang play on them?
2. Which characters fit into their cultural stereotype? How has their culture played a part in building their personality? How does it play a part in their motives?
Essay Topic 3
Gallimard claims he is pure imagination. Write an essay on what Hwang meant to portray with this plot development.
1. Do you believe Gallimard knew Song was a man? Cite examples from the story that back your argument.
2. What changes when Gallimard finally sees Song naked? How does he treat Song? How does his opinion on Song changed? According to Gallimard, what was the mistake that Song made?
3. How does Song react to Gallimard's attitude toward him?
4. How does the fantasy world different from the reality of Gallimard's situation? Which does he choose? Why?
5. What does Gallimard mean when he is "pure imagination?"
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