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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 do the three people in Scene 2 think of Gallimard?

2. In what year does Scene 6 take place?

3. What is Song's full name?

4. According to Gallimard, who wrote Madame Butterfly?

5. What does Marc compare a pool full of naked women to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Renee's candor about sexuality and the human anatomy differ from Galliamard's?

2. Why does Toulon choose to put forth Gallimard's choices and opinions to his superiors in intelligence instead of his own?

3. How do the actions within the play prove Song's theory that all a man wants from a woman is to submit, and that will result in him recanting his demands?

4. Describe the character of Renee.

5. In the plot of the opera Madame Butterfly, what is the relationship between Pinkerton and Sharpless? How does that story relate to Gallimard?

6. Why did Song take so much care in her first appearance to Gallimard when he finds him in France?

7. How does Song talk Gallimard out of marriage?

8. How is Gallimard talked out of seeing the doctor?

9. How does Gallimard's character change at the end of Scene 10?

10. What did Song mean when she said the fascination Caucasian men have for Oriental women is always "imperialist?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During Act 1, the opera of Madame Butterfly serves as a structure to the first act.

1. How does each character reflect the part he/she plays? How are they different?

2. What is important about the story of Madame Butterfly in conjunction with the story of the play?

3. How does it foreshadow events in the play?

Essay Topic 2

Song creates an involved web of lies to trap Gallimard. Song portrays little regard for the lives of others.

1. What are Song's major characteristics? How do those characteristics develop and change as the plot goes on?

2. What are some of the tactics Song uses to get what she wants? How do her needs change?

3. What are Song's motives behind her entrapment of Gallimard? Personal? Political? Do her ethics ever conflict with her goals?

Essay Topic 3

There is a distinct relationship that is established between Song and Gallimard that relates to the stereotypical relationship between the East ("the Orient") and the West.

1. Gallimard's view of his relationship can be translated as give and take. What is it that Gallimard offers to Song in their relationship? What does she give him in exchange?

2. How does the relationship between Gallimard and his Butterfly reflect the relationship between the East and West?

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