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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 Song afraid of as she is entertaining Gallimard in her parlor?
2. What is the setting of Scene 2?
3. From what location is Gallimard narrating his story?
4. What is an important fact that Toulon wants Gallimard to know about their jobs at the embassy?
5. During the Revolution, what signs would hang in the windows of the clubs in Shanghai?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Song take so much care in her first appearance to Gallimard when he finds him in France?
2. How does the nature of Gallimard and Song's relationship develop through Act 1?
3. Why does Song say that Peepee will never live in the West?
4. How does Song's opinion of Madame Butterfly differ from Gallimard's?
5. Why does Gallimard want to see Song fully naked?
6. Why was Song beaten? What were Chin's choices for further punishment for Song?
7. Why does Toulon approve of Gallimard's infidelity?
8. In the opera, how does the character of Butterfly look on Pinkerton?
9. Why does Song consider Gallimard her greatest acting challenge?
10. How is Gallimard talked out of seeing the doctor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gallimard serves as the narrator throughout the play. The fantasies and flashbacks are his. Write a characterization of Gallimard and how he fits in with the structure of the play.
1. What was Gallimard's life like growing up? How did his days as a youth help to create the man he is now?
2. Describe Gallimard's relationship with women. Is Gallimard an attractive man? How does his physical appearance reflect his place in society? How does he talk to women? What is his sex drive like?
3. Descibe Gallimard's relationship with his wife. Why did he marry her? What is his opinion of love? How does that affect his interactions with other characters and his actions in the play?
Essay Topic 2
The politics of a changing world play a major part in the direction of the plot. Write an essay on how the political tumult defines the conflict between certain characters and situations.
1. What are some of the major political events that happen while Gallimard is in office? What are the major global events that occur during the 1960's?
2. As the 60's progress, how does life for the characters in the play change? What is at stake for characters involved? How does the play and the stakes within it change as time goes by?
3. Describe how the growing chaos of the 1960s reflect events within M. Butterfly.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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