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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 Jean get in his eye?

2. What does Jean tell Julie about the servants in Scene 1?

3. In what way is Julie lower class, according to Jean and Christine?

4. What is Christine's occupation?

5. Where did Miss Julie cancel her engagement with Mr. Kronvogt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the mood of Christine's Pantomime?

2. What is the significance of the ballet?

3. How does Strindberg suggest that Julie kill herself?

4. What does Julie's behavior toward Jean indicate about her own sense of power?

5. Why is Julie upset with Jean in the fourth scene?

6. Where does Jean say he learned to speak French so well?

7. Why does Jean compare Julie to her mother, and how is this significant?

8. How does Julie show that she is in denial at the beginning of the third scene?

9. Why does Jean not want the Count to find out about his relationship with Julie?

10. What does Christine do while Jean and Julie go out dancing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

MISS JULIE greatly influenced modern theater. Choose a play that you think was influenced by the play and discuss its similarities with the novel in terms of the following:

1. Plot

2. Character

3. Themes.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Strindberg structure the play like he does? What does the play's structure express? How different do the students think the play would have been if it had a more conventional structure?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the meaning of "dreams" in "Miss Julie."

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